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May 21st 2022 5th Saturday of : Memorial of St. Christopher Magallanes Catedral Guadalajara Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White First readingActs 16:1-10 ©'Come across to Macedonia and help us'From Cilicia Paul went to Derbe, and then on to Lystra. Here there was a disciple called Timothy, whose mother was a Jewess who had become a believer; but his father was a Greek. The brothers at Lystra and Iconium spoke well of Timothy, and Paul, who wanted to have him as a travelling companion, had him circumcised. This was on account of the Jews in the locality where everyone knew his...

May 14th 2022 Saturday of the fourth week of Eastertide St. Mark's, Independence, Missouri 64055 Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Red First readingActs 1:15-17,20-26 ©'Let someone else take his office'One day Peter stood up to speak to the brothers – there were about a hundred and twenty persons in the congregation: ‘Brothers, the passage of scripture had to be fulfilled in which the Holy Spirit, speaking through David, foretells the fate of Judas, who offered himself as a guide to the men who arrested Jesus – after having been one of our number and actually sharing this ministry of ours. Now...

May 8th 2022 Sunday of the fourth week of Eastertide Don Bosco's Matunga, Mumbai, India Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White First readingActs 13:14,43-52 ©'We must turn to the pagans'Paul and Barnabas carried on from Perga till they reached Antioch in Pisidia. Here they went to synagogue on the Sabbath and took their seats. When the meeting broke up many Jews and devout converts joined Paul and Barnabas, and in their talks with them Paul and Barnabas urged them to remain faithful to the grace God had given them. The next sabbath almost the whole town assembled to hear the word...

May 7th 2022 3rd Saturday of Eastertide Sakitsu Catholic church, Nagasaki, Japan Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White First readingActs 9:31-42 ©The churches grew and were filled with the consolation of the Holy SpiritThe churches throughout Judaea, Galilee and Samaria were now left in peace, building themselves up, living in the fear of the Lord, and filled with the consolation of the Holy Spirit. Peter visited one place after another and eventually came to the saints living down in Lydda. There he found a man called Aeneas, a paralytic who had been bedridden for eight years. Peter said to him, ‘Aeneas,...