Readings of the Day: Tuesday of the Third Week of Easter
April 20,2021Into your hands, O Lord, I commend my spirit.
Jesus bread of life, give us abundance of life
Jesus bread of life, give us abundance of life that can withstand and prevail upon all the forces of death we come across all around us in different forms and ways that strengthened by your life-giving message we may defeat them and bring life to all men and women of our times threatened by those forces of death. Amen.
April 20,2021
Into your hands, O Lord, I commend my spirit.
Blessed are they who follow the law of the Lord
Today’s passage from John is significant. The crowd wanted a sign from Jesus to demonstrate his authority. When the crowd mentioned manna in the desert, Jesus clarified that God provided the manna, not Moses.
Let us seek out the Spirit and be stronger and be better able to face life’s challenges. God’s Spirit is for real.
Today’s passage from the Gospel of Luke is the aftermath of the story of Jesus’ encounter with two of his disciples on the road to Emmaus.
St. Agnes of Montepulciano was born in 13th-century Tuscany. At the age of six, Agnes began trying to convince her parents to allow her to join a convent. She was finally admitted to the Dominican convent at Montepulciano at age nine.
She was born in Magenta near Milano, the tenth of Alberto and Maria Beretta’s 13 children. An active member of the St. Vincent de Paul Society and a leader in the Catholic Action movement, Gianna also enjoyed skiing and mountain climbing.
The death of those we love brings a troubling awareness of our own mortality. James had that experience when he gazed into a friend’s grave, and it brought him to his senses.
