OUR PROTECTOR

TODAY’S READINGS INVITE US to recognize our need for one who ensures our safety, nourishes us, and leads us to peace and security, like sheep who rest in the care of a good shepherd. Such a shepherd will protect and save the sheep, even from the most deadly of predators. Today, we ponder the incredible news that Jesus accepted death on the cross in order to open the gates of eternal life with God for us. Through his resurrection, Jesus protects and saves us from the power of sin and death. We need only accept his love and live as God’s people in this life, relying on the Lord who is the door to new life for us and for all.

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READINGS

For The Week

MONDAY

ACTS 11:1-18; PS 42:2-3; 43:3, 4; JN 10:11-18 OR, FOR THE MEMORIAL, GN 1:26 — 2:3 OR COL 3:14-15, 17, 23-24; PS 90:2-4, 12-14, 16; MT 13:54-58

Saint Profile

Pius V

PIUS V WAS ELECTED IN 1566 and charged with the task of implementing the sweeping reforms called for by the Council. He ordered the founding of seminaries for the proper training of priests. He published a new missal, a new breviary, a new catechism, and established the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine classes for the young. Pius zealously enforced legislation against abuses in the Church. He patiently served the sick and the poor by building hospitals, providing food for the hungry, and giving money customarily used for the papal banquets to poor Roman converts. His decision to keep wearing his Dominican habit led to the custom–to this day–of the pope wearing a white cassock.

Pius’ ceaseless papal quest for a renewal of the Church was grounded in his personal life as a Dominican friar. He spent long hours with his God in prayer, fasted rigorously, deprived himself of many customary papal luxuries, and faithfully observed the spirit of the Dominican Rule that he had professed. C

TUESDAY ACTS 11:19-26; PS 87:1B-7; JN 10:22-30

WEDNESDAY

1 COR 15:1-8; PS 19:2-5; JN 14:6-14

THURSDAY ACTS 13:13-25; PS 89:2-3, 21-22, 25, 27; JN 13:16-20

FRIDAY ACTS 13:26-33; PS 2:6-11AB; JN 14:1-6

SATURDAY ACTS 13:44-52; PS 98:1-4; JN 14:7-14

SUNDAY ACTS 6:1-7; PS 33:1-2, 4-5, 18-19; 1 PT 2:4-9; JN 14:1-12