DAILY GOSPEL: 11/04/2010
«Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.» John 6,68
Second Sunday of Easter
Acts of the Apostles 5:12-16.
Many signs and wonders were done among the people at the hands of the apostles. They were all together in Solomon's portico.
None of the others dared to join them, but the people esteemed them.
Yet more than ever, believers in the Lord, great numbers of men and women, were added to them.
Thus they even carried the sick out into the streets and laid them on cots and mats so that when Peter came by, at least his shadow might fall on one or another of them.
A large number of people from the towns in the vicinity of Jerusalem also gathered, bringing the sick and those disturbed by unclean spirits, and they were all cured.
Psalms 118(117):2-4.22-24.25-27.
Let the house of Israel say: God's love endures forever.
Let the house of Aaron say, God's love endures forever.
Let those who fear the LORD say, God's love endures forever.
The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.
By the LORD has this been done; it is wonderful in our eyes.
This is the day the LORD has made; let us rejoice in it and be glad.
LORD, grant salvation! LORD, grant good fortune!
Blessed is he who comes in the name of the LORD. We bless you from the LORD'S house.
The LORD is God and has given us light. Join in procession with leafy branches up to the horns of the altar.
Book of Revelation 1:9-11.12-13.17-19.
I, John, your brother, who share with you the distress, the kingdom, and the endurance we have in Jesus, found myself on the island called Patmos because I proclaimed God's word and gave testimony to Jesus.
I was caught up in spirit on the Lord's day and heard behind me a voice as loud as a trumpet,
which said, "Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea."
Then I turned to see whose voice it was that spoke to me, and when I turned, I saw seven gold lampstands
and in the midst of the lampstands one like a son of man, wearing an ankle-length robe, with a gold sash around his chest.
When I caught sight of him, I fell down at his feet as though dead. He touched me with his right hand and said, "Do not be afraid. I am the first and the last,
the one who lives. Once I was dead, but now I am alive forever and ever. I hold the keys to death and the netherworld.
Write down, therefore, what you have seen, and what is happening, and what will happen afterwards.
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John 20:19-31.
On the evening of that first day of the week, when the doors were locked, where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst and said to them, «Peace be with you.»
When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord.
(Jesus) said to them again, "Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you."
And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, "Receive the holy Spirit.
Whose sins you forgive are forgiven them, and whose sins you retain are retained."
Thomas, called Didymus, one of the Twelve, was not with them when Jesus came.
So the other disciples said to him, "We have seen the Lord." But he said to them, "Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands and put my finger into the nailmarks and put my hand into his side, I will not believe."
Now a week later his disciples were again inside and Thomas was with them. Jesus came, although the doors were locked, and stood in their midst and said, "Peace be with you."
Then he said to Thomas, "Put your finger here and see my hands, and bring your hand and put it into my side, and do not be unbelieving, but believe."
Thomas answered and said to him, "My Lord and my God!"
Jesus said to him, "Have you come to believe because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and have believed."
Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of (his) disciples that are not written in this book.
But these are written that you may (come to) believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that through this belief you may have life in his name.
Many signs and wonders were done among the people at the hands of the apostles. They were all together in Solomon's portico.
None of the others dared to join them, but the people esteemed them.
Yet more than ever, believers in the Lord, great numbers of men and women, were added to them.
Thus they even carried the sick out into the streets and laid them on cots and mats so that when Peter came by, at least his shadow might fall on one or another of them.
A large number of people from the towns in the vicinity of Jerusalem also gathered, bringing the sick and those disturbed by unclean spirits, and they were all cured.
Psalms 118(117):2-4.22-24.25-27.
Let the house of Israel say: God's love endures forever.
Let the house of Aaron say, God's love endures forever.
Let those who fear the LORD say, God's love endures forever.
The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.
By the LORD has this been done; it is wonderful in our eyes.
This is the day the LORD has made; let us rejoice in it and be glad.
LORD, grant salvation! LORD, grant good fortune!
Blessed is he who comes in the name of the LORD. We bless you from the LORD'S house.
The LORD is God and has given us light. Join in procession with leafy branches up to the horns of the altar.
Book of Revelation 1:9-11.12-13.17-19.
I, John, your brother, who share with you the distress, the kingdom, and the endurance we have in Jesus, found myself on the island called Patmos because I proclaimed God's word and gave testimony to Jesus.
I was caught up in spirit on the Lord's day and heard behind me a voice as loud as a trumpet,
which said, "Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea."
Then I turned to see whose voice it was that spoke to me, and when I turned, I saw seven gold lampstands
and in the midst of the lampstands one like a son of man, wearing an ankle-length robe, with a gold sash around his chest.
When I caught sight of him, I fell down at his feet as though dead. He touched me with his right hand and said, "Do not be afraid. I am the first and the last,
the one who lives. Once I was dead, but now I am alive forever and ever. I hold the keys to death and the netherworld.
Write down, therefore, what you have seen, and what is happening, and what will happen afterwards.
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John 20:19-31.
On the evening of that first day of the week, when the doors were locked, where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst and said to them, «Peace be with you.»
When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord.
(Jesus) said to them again, "Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you."
And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, "Receive the holy Spirit.
Whose sins you forgive are forgiven them, and whose sins you retain are retained."
Thomas, called Didymus, one of the Twelve, was not with them when Jesus came.
So the other disciples said to him, "We have seen the Lord." But he said to them, "Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands and put my finger into the nailmarks and put my hand into his side, I will not believe."
Now a week later his disciples were again inside and Thomas was with them. Jesus came, although the doors were locked, and stood in their midst and said, "Peace be with you."
Then he said to Thomas, "Put your finger here and see my hands, and bring your hand and put it into my side, and do not be unbelieving, but believe."
Thomas answered and said to him, "My Lord and my God!"
Jesus said to him, "Have you come to believe because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and have believed."
Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of (his) disciples that are not written in this book.
But these are written that you may (come to) believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that through this belief you may have life in his name.
Jn 20,19-31
Gregory of Narek (c.944-1010), Armenian monk and poet
Book of Prayers, no.33 (trad. SC 78, p. 206)
"Receive the holy Spirit"
Almighty, Benefactor, Friend to humankind, God of all,
and Creator of all things, visible and invisible;
You who save us and affirm us,
who care for us and bring us peace,
Mighty Spirit of the Father...
You share the same throne, the same glory,
and the same creative activity as the Father...
By your mediation was revealed to us
the Trinity of Persons in a unity of nature in the Divinity;
and you, too, are counted as one among those Persons,
O incomprehensible One...
Through Moses you were proclaimed Spirit of God (Gn 1,2)
as you hovered over the waters
with all-embracing protectiveness, awesome, full of care.
You spread your wings in sign of your compassionate presence
hovering over those newly born,
and by this means revealed the mystery of the waters of baptism...
O Almighty One, as Lord you created
all natures and everything that exists (cf. Credo),
every being created by you,
in the moment that is last among the days of life here below
and first in the Land of the living.
He who is of the same nature as you,
He, the firstborn Son, who is consubstantial with the Father,
obeyed you as a Father in our nature,
binding his will to yours.
He made you known as true God,
equal and consubstantial to his all-powerful Father...
and he shut the mouths of those who resisted you
for they were struggling against God (cf. Mt 12,28),
whereas he forgave all who were against himself.
He is the Just One, the Pure One, the Savior of all,
delivered up on account of our sins
and raised for our justification (Rom 4,25).
Through you all glory to him,
and to you all praise, together with the all-powerful Father
for endless ages. Amen.
and Creator of all things, visible and invisible;
You who save us and affirm us,
who care for us and bring us peace,
Mighty Spirit of the Father...
You share the same throne, the same glory,
and the same creative activity as the Father...
By your mediation was revealed to us
the Trinity of Persons in a unity of nature in the Divinity;
and you, too, are counted as one among those Persons,
O incomprehensible One...
Through Moses you were proclaimed Spirit of God (Gn 1,2)
as you hovered over the waters
with all-embracing protectiveness, awesome, full of care.
You spread your wings in sign of your compassionate presence
hovering over those newly born,
and by this means revealed the mystery of the waters of baptism...
O Almighty One, as Lord you created
all natures and everything that exists (cf. Credo),
every being created by you,
in the moment that is last among the days of life here below
and first in the Land of the living.
He who is of the same nature as you,
He, the firstborn Son, who is consubstantial with the Father,
obeyed you as a Father in our nature,
binding his will to yours.
He made you known as true God,
equal and consubstantial to his all-powerful Father...
and he shut the mouths of those who resisted you
for they were struggling against God (cf. Mt 12,28),
whereas he forgave all who were against himself.
He is the Just One, the Pure One, the Savior of all,
delivered up on account of our sins
and raised for our justification (Rom 4,25).
Through you all glory to him,
and to you all praise, together with the all-powerful Father
for endless ages. Amen.
St. Stanislas, Bishop and Martyr (1030-1079)
SAINT STANISLAS
Bishop and Martyr
(1030-1079)
Bishop and Martyr
(1030-1079)
Stanislas was born in answer to prayer when his parents were advanced in age. Out of gratitude they educated him for the Church, and from a holy priest he became in time Bishop of Cracow.
Boleslas II. was then King of Poland-a prince of good disposition, but spoilt by a long course of victory and success. After many acts of lust and cruelty, he outraged the whole kingdom by carrying off the wife of one of his nobles. Against this public scandal the chaste and gentle bishop alone raised his voice. Having commended the matter to God, he went down to the palace and openly rebuked the king for his crime against God and his subjects, and threatened to excommunicate him if he persisted in his sin.
To slander the Saint's character, Boleslas suborned the nephews of one Paul, lately dead, to swear that their uncle had never been paid for land bought by the bishop for the Church. The Saint stood fearlessly before the king's tribunal, though all his witnesses forsook him, and guaranteed to bring the dead man to witness for him within three days. On the third day, after many prayers and tears, he raised Paul to life, and led him in his grave-clothes before the king. Boleslas made a show for a while of a better life. Soon, however, he relapsed into the most scandalous excesses, and the bishop, finding all remonstrance useless, pronounced the sentence of excommunication.
In defiance of the censure, on April 11, 1079, the king went down to a chapel where the bishop himself was saying Mass, and sent in three companies of soldiers to dispatch him at the altar. Each in turn came out, saying they had been scared by a light from heaven. Then the king rushed in and slew the Saint at the altar with his own hand.
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