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Sunday, May 28, 2006
The Ascension of the Lord (Solemnity)
First Reading:
Psalm:
Second Reading:
Gospel:
Acts 1:1-11
Psalm 47:2-3, 6-9
Ephesians 1:17-23 or 4:1-13 or 4:1-7, 11-13
Mark 16:15-20

When you feel the assaults of passion and anger, then is the time to be silent as Jesus was silent in the midst of His ignominies and sufferings.

-- St. Paul of the Cross

Monday, May 29, 2006
Easter Weekday (Memorial Day is not observed liturgically in the Easter Season)
First Reading:
Psalm:
Gospel:
Acts 19:1-8
Psalm 68:2-7
John 16:29-33

Take care not to meddle in things which do not concern you, nor even allow them to pass through your mind; for perhaps you will not then be able to fulfill your own task.

-- St. John of the Cross

Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Easter Weekday
First Reading:
Psalm:
Gospel:
Acts 20:17-27
Psalm 68:10-11, 20-21
John 17:1-11

It should be our principal business to conquer ourselves and, from day to day, to go on increasing in strength and perfection. Above all, however, it is necessary for us to strive to conquer our little temptations, such as fits of anger, suspicions, jealousies, envy, deceitfulness, vanity, attachments, and evil thoughts. For in this way we shall acquire strength to subdue greater ones.

-- St. Francis De Sales

Wednesday, May 31, 2006
The Visitation of the Virgin Mary (Feast)
First Reading:
Psalm:
Gospel:
Zephaniah 3:14-18 or Romans 12:9-16
Isaiah 12:2-6
Luke 1:39-56

My heart hath uttered a good word: I speak my words to the King.

-- Psalm xliv. 2

Thursday, June 1, 2006
St. Justin, Martyr (Memorial)
First Reading:
Psalm:
Gospel:
Acts 22:30; 23:6-11
Psalm 16:1-2, 5, 7-11
John 17:20-26

God is ascended with jubilee, and the Lord with the sound of trumpet.

-- Ps. xlvi. 6

Friday, June 2, 2006
Easter Weekday
First Reading:
Psalm:
Gospel:
Acts 25:13-21
Psalm 103:1-2, 11-12, 19-20
John 21:15-19

Diligence in prayer is the perfection of the Gospel.

-- St. Aloysius Gonzaga

Saturday, June 3, 2006
Sts. Charles Lwanga and Companions, Martyrs (Memorial)
First Reading:
Psalm:
Gospel:
Acts 28:16-20, 30-31
Psalm 11:4, 5, 7
John 21:20-25

The saints have always been the source and origin of renewal in the most difficult moments in the Church's history.

-- Pope John Paul II

Sunday, June 4, 2006
Pentecost Sunday (Solemnity) (Ninth week in Ordinary Time)
First Reading:
Psalm:
Second Reading:
Gospel:
Acts 2:1-11
Psalm 104:1, 24, 29-31, 34
1 Corinthians 12:3-7, 12-13 or Galatians 5:16-25
John 20:19-23 or 15:26-27; 16:12-15

If one yields ground on any single point of Catholic doctrine, one will later have to yield later in another, and again in another, and so on until such surrenders come to be something normal and acceptable. And when one gets used to rejecting dogma bit by bit, the final result will be the repudiation of it altogether.

-- St Vincent of Lerins

Monday, June 5, 2006
St. Boniface, Bishop, Martyr (Memorial)
First Reading:
Psalm:
Gospel:
2 Peter 1:2-7
Psalm 91:1-2, 14-16
Mark 12:1-12

If God causes you to suffer much, it is a sign that He has great designs for you, and that He certainly intends to make you a Saint.

-- St Ignatius Loyola

Tuesday, June 6, 2006
Feria
First Reading:
Psalm:
Gospel:
2 Peter 3:12-15, 17-18
Psalm 90:2-4, 10, 14, 16
Mark 12:13-17

Anxiety proceeds from an ill-regulated desire to be delivered from the evil we experience, or to acquire the good to which we aspire; nevertheless, nothing aggravates evil and hinders good so much as anxiety and worry.

-- St Francis de Sales

Wednesday, June 7, 2006
Feria
First Reading:
Psalm:
Gospel:
2 Timothy 1:1-3, 6-12
Psalm 123:1-2
Mark 12:18-27

Nothing is anything more to me; everything is nothing to me, but Jesus: neither things nor persons, neither ideas nor emotions, neither honor nor sufferings. Jesus is for me honor, delight, heart and soul.

-- St Bernadette

Thursday, June 8, 2006
Feria
First Reading:
Psalm:
Gospel:
2 Timothy 2:8-15
Psalm 25:4-5, 8-10, 14
Mark 12:28-34

For the spirit of the wisdom hath filled the whole world

-- Wis. i. 7

Friday, June 9, 2006
Feria
First Reading:
Psalm:
Gospel:
2 Timothy 3:10-17
Psalm 119:157, 160-161, 165-166, 168
Mark 12:35-37

And he fed them with the fat of wheat, and filled them with honey out of the rock.

-- Ps. lxxx. 17

Saturday, June 10, 2006
Saturday Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary
First Reading:
Psalm:
Gospel:
2 Timothy 4:1-8
Psalm 71:8-9, 14-17, 22
Mark 12:38-44

O God, when thou didst go forth in the sight of thy people, when thou didst pass through the desert: The earth was moved, and the heavens dropped at the presence of the God of Sina, at the presence of the God of Israel.

-- Ps. lxvii. 8,9