Easter: May 29th
Monday of the Seventh Week of Easter
MASS READINGS
May 29, 2017 (Readings on USCCB website)
COLLECT PRAYER
May the power of the Holy Spirit come to us, we pray, O Lord, that we may keep your will faithfully in mind and express it in a devout way of life. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.
Recipes (7)
- Beignets de Pommes
- Carmelite Sundaes
- Dolmas
- Dolmas
- Rose Leaf Jam
- St. Martha's Supper for a Warm Day
- Stuffed Pigeons
Activities (5)
- Cenacle Project
- Elementary Parent Pedagogy: Living and Loving
- Marian Hymn: Bring Flowers of the Fairest
- May, the Month of Mary
- Preschool Parent Pedagogy: Lessons from Books
Prayers (13)
- Prayer to the Holy Spirit
- The Golden Sequence
- Renewal of Confirmation
- Pentecost Prayers
- May Pilgrimages
- Book of Blessings: Blessing Before and After Meals: Ordinary Time (1st Plan)
- Ascension and Pentecost Prayer Suggestions
- Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Litany of Loretto)
- Prayer for the Octave of Pentecost
- Prayers between Ascension and Pentecost
- Veni, Creator Spiritus
- Novena to the Holy Spirit
- Novena for Pentecost
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Old Calendar: Friday after Pentecost; St. Mary Magdalen de' Pazzi, virgin
According to the 1962 Missal of St. John XXIII the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite, today is the feast of St. Mary Magdalen of Pazzi. At the age of ten she consecrated her virginity to Christ, she was a Carmelite famous for her visions. Her motto was "To suffer and not to die." She died in 1607. Her feast in the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite is celebrated on May 25.
Meditation - Our Intercessor
Through the centuries the Church Fathers have said that Our Lord keeps for Himself half His regency, which is the Kingdom of Justice, but the other half He gives away to His Mother, and this is the Kingdom of Mercy. At the Marriage Feast of Cana, Our Lord said that the hour of His Passion was not yet at hand-the hour when justice would be fulfilled. But His Blessed Mother begged Him not to wait, but to be merciful to those who were in need, and to supply their wants by changing water into wine. Three years later, when not the water was changed into wine, but the wine into blood, He fulfilled all justice, but surrendered half His Kingdom by giving to us that which no one else could give, namely, His Mother: "Behold thy Mother." Whatever mothers do for sons, that His Mother would do, and more.
Throughout all history the Blessed Mother has been the link between two contraries: the eternal punishment of hell for sinners and the universal unlimited Redemption of Her Divine Son. These extremes cannot be reconciled except by mercy. Not that Mary pardons-for she cannot-but she intercedes as a mother does in the face of the justice of the father. Without justice, mercy would be indifference to wrong: without mercy, justice would be vindictive. Mothers obtain pardon and forgiveness for their sons without ever giving them the feeling of "being let off." Justice makes the wrongdoer see the injustice in the violation of a law; mercy makes him see it in the sufferings and misery he caused those who love him deeply.
— Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen