Saints of the Day
'Tis the Optional Memorial of Our Lady of Fátima (apparitions 13 May-13 October 1917).
Scripture of the Day
Mass Readings—Wednesday of the Sixth Week of Easter
The Acts of the Apostles, chapter seventeen, verses fitten & twenty thru chapter eighteen, verse one;
Psalm One Hundred Forty-eight (R/. "Heaven and Earth are full of Your glory;" or, "Alleluia"), verses one & two, eleven & twelve, thirteen, & fourteen;
The Gospel according to John, chapter sixteen, verses twelve thru fifteen.
Commentary: Daily Readings.
Gospel reflection by Bishop Robert Barron (Word on Fire):
Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus promises to send the Holy Spirit to guide the Church through time. “I have much more to tell you, but you cannot bear it now. But when he comes, the Spirit of truth, he will guide you to all truth.”Video reflection by Jem Sullivan, Ph.D. (U.S.C.C.B.): Easter Reflection.
Since Jesus is the Son of God, it is impossible for us adequately to interpret him through our own powers of perception. We require a divine pedagogue through which the speech of the Father is to be understood. This is the advocate we call the Holy Spirit.
The words of today’s Gospel are almost unbearably profound, for they speak not only of the inner life of God but of the central dynamic of the Church’s life. The Father indeed spoke the fullness of his life, being, and truth in the Son, but the Church, in its earliest days, was incapable of taking that fullness in.
What was (and still is) required is the ongoing influence of the Spirit, the divine interpreter of the Word, who does his work gradually and powerfully as the Church journeys across space and time.
Mass Readings—Optional Memorial of Our Lady of Fátima
The Book of Isaiah, chapter sixty-one, verses nine, ten, & eleven;
Psalm Forty-five (R/. eleven; or, "Alleluia"), verses eleven & twelve, fourteen & fifteen, & sixteen & seventeen;
The Gospel according to Luke, chapter eleven, verses twenty-seven & twenty-eight.
Commentary: Memorial Readings.
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