The Elective Chapter of the Carmelite Monastery of Zaragoza, Spain, was held 15 May 2017. The following were elected:

• Prioress:  Sr. Elena-María Samper Samper, O.Carm.
• 1st Councilor:   Sr. Ana Wairimu Thuo, O.Carm.
• 2nd Councilor:  Sr. Aurora Palacio, O.Carm.
• 3rd Councilor:   Sr Evelyn Alina Maluha, O.Carm.
• 4th Couniclor:   Sr. Ascension Simoes Estimado, O.Carm.
• Director of Novices:  Sr. Ana Wairimu Thuo, O.Carm.
• Treasurer:  Sr. Manuela Sosa Camacho, O.Carm.
• Sacristan:   Sr. Eva Alina Maluha, O.Carm.

On 28th June 2016, that the Holy Father, Pope Francis nominated bishop of the diocese of Malang, in Indonesia, Fr. Henricus Pidyarto Gunawan, O.Carm., of the Province of Indonesia.

Fr. Henricus was born at Malang in Indonesia, on 13th July 1955. Following his profession in the Order on 15th January 1976, he was ordained priest on 7th February 1982. Since 2012 he was president of the “Philosophical and Theological Higher Institute ‘Widya Sasana’”.

Address:

Jl. Guntur 2, Malang 65112, Jawa, Indonesia

(0341)362.524

Fax :323.744

On 28th May 2016, the Holy Father, Pope Francis nominated bishop of the diocese of Mutare, in Zimbabwe, Fr. Paul Horan O.Carm., of the Irish Province. Fr. Paul was born at Drangan in Ireland, on 17th October 1962. Following his profession in the Order on 1st September 1990, he was ordained priest on 7th June 1997. During these past years he has worked in Zimbabwe and is presently the Prior of the Pre-Novitiate house in Nyazure, Rusape in Zimbabwe.

Diocese of Mutare, Zimbabwe

The Diocese of Mutare is situated in the Eastern part of Zimbabwe along the border with Mozambique. It corresponds to the Province of Manicaland and is centred around the Cathedral City of Mutare which is 170 miles east of Harare, the Capital of Zimbabwe.

The Prefecture Apostolic of Umtali (Mutare) was erected on 2^ndFebruary 1953 and was confided to the care of the Carmelites of the Irish Province. On 15^thFebruary 1957 the Prefecture was raised to the status of a Diocese with the Rt. Rev. Donal Lamont O.Carm (born in Ballycastle, Co. Antrim) as its first Bishop.

Biographical Note

Father Paul Horan was born on 17^thOctober 1962. Having attended the Convent of Mercy Primary School in Drangan (Co. Tipperary, Ireland) and the Presentation Sisters Secondary School (Ballingarry) he qualified as a Certified Accountant (ACCA) and worked in Ireland and London. Fr. Paul was received into the Carmelite Order at the novitiate in Kinsale in 1989, making his first profession there on 1^stSeptember 1990. After completing his Baccalaureate in Philosophy and Bachelor of Divinity degrees (Milltown Institute) he was ordained a priest on 7^thJune 1997.

Fr. Paul was appointed to Terenure College where he held various roles including teaching at both primary and secondary level, head chaplain and head of the Province’s Vocations Team. He went for further studies and completed a M.A. in Theology (specialising in Carmelite Studies) in May 2001 (Washington Theological Union) in the USA.

In September 2001, Fr. Paul was appointed to work in Zimbabwe where he held various roles including Director of Pre-Novices, Director of Novices, School Manager (Kriste Mambo High School), and he served at St. Kilian’s Mission, Makoni. He was elected to serve for two terms on the Zimbabwean Carmelite Commissary Council in 2009 and 2012. Fr. Paul was highly instrumental in getting the first Carmelite (enclosed) Nuns to Zimbabwe who arrived there from the Monastery of Our Lady of Mount Carmel (Machakos, Kenya) in February 2015. Fr. Paul was also been appointed by the Carmelite General Council to the International Commission for Carmelite Schools and Youth. Currently, he is the Prior of the new Carmelite Community in Prophet Elijah Priory, Nyazura, Rusape.

Address:

Bishop’s House, “Drumfad”,

Marymount Road, Box 47, Mutare

Tel: (020) 62347

Fax: (020) 62347 (ask for fax).

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The Elective Chapter of the Carmelite Monastery of Burgos, Philippines, was held 5 May 2017. The following were elected:

• Prioress:  Sr. M. Elena Z. Tolentino, O.Carm.
• 1st Councilor:   Sr. M. Ana Maria D. Bernardo, O.Carm.
• 2nd Councilor:  Sr. M. Lourdes Y. Siozon, O.Carm.
• Director of Novices:  Sr. Ana Maria D. Bernardo, O.Carm.
• Treasurer:  Sr. M. Janet Marie Espinosa, O.Carm.
• Sacristan:   Sr. M. Rowena V. Bumacod, O.Carm.

On the 5th of November, Pope Francis appointed João José da Costa, O.Carm. to be the Coadjutor bishop of the Archdiocese of Aracaju (Brazil). Bishop João Costa, who up to now has been the Bishop of Iguatu, is a member of the province of Pernambuco (Brazil), where he was the Prior Provincial from 1998 to 2004. In union with the whole Carmelite Order and the Carmelite Family, we send him our congratulations and best wishes, as we unite in prayer for his ministry.

Cúria Metropolitana da Arquidiocese de Aracaju

Rua Olímpio Campos, 228, Centro, Aracaju, SE, Cep. 49010-040

Tel: (79) 3216-3000

Witness to the Gospel without fear

Matthew 10: 26-33

1. OPENING PRAYER

In the darkness of a starless night,

a night of no sense,

You, the Word of life,

like lightning in the storm of forgetfulness,

entered within the bounds of doubt

under cover of the limits of precariousness

to hide the light.

Words made of silence and of the ordinary,

Your human words, heralds of the secrets of the Most High:

like hooks cast into the waters of death

to find man once more, immersed in his anxious follies,

and reclaim him, plundered,

through the attractive radiance of forgiveness.

To You, Ocean of Peace and shadow of eternal Glory,

I render thanks:

Calm waters on my shore that awaits the wave, I wish to seek You!

And may the friendship of the brothers protect me

when night falls on my desire for You. Amen.

2. READING

a) The text:

26 'So do not be afraid of them. Everything now covered up will be uncovered, and everything now hidden will be made clear. 27 What I say to you in the dark, tell in the daylight; what you hear in whispers, proclaim from the housetops. 28 'Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; fear him rather who can destroy both body and soul in hell. 29 Can you not buy two sparrows for a penny? And yet not one falls to the ground without your Father knowing. 30 Why, every hair on your head has been counted. 31 So there is no need to be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows. 32 'So if anyone declares himself for Me in the presence of human beings, I will declare Myself for him in the presence of My Father in heaven. 33 But the one who disowns Me in the presence of human beings, I will disown in the presence of My Father in heaven.

b) A moment of silence:

Let us allow the voice of the Word to resonate within us.

3. MEDITATION

a) Questions for reflection:

There is nothing hidden which will not be revealed: the truth under the veil of silence is spread more than if it is exposed in the avid or greedy hands of people who are deaf to the breath of the Spirit. Where do you place the Word of God that you listen to: in the power of your adventurous thoughts or in the sacrarium of your profound acceptance?

That which I tell you in the dark, tell it in the daylight: Christ speaks in the dark, in the secret of the heart. To offer His words to the light, these must go though your thought, within your feelings, in your entrails before they come to your lips. The words which you habitually say to others, are they words said in the secret of Him or rather syllables of thoughts which just come to mind?

And do not be afraid of those who kill the body: not anything nor anybody can do you harm if God is with you. They can make you a prisoner, but they cannot take away liberty and dignity from you because these cannot be seized by anybody. Fears, worry, suspicions, anxieties... can become a souvenir which is far away. When will you leave all this aside, trusting that God will not abandon you ever and will take care of you?

Can you not buy two sparrows for a penny? And yet not one falls to the ground without your Father knowing. God’s Providence can be similar to destiny, but it is something different. Think of the sparrows which fall to the ground. It is not God who throws them down, but when they fall the Father is there. It is not God who sends sickness, but when people become ill, the Father is there with them. Our things belong to Him. Solitude, which frequently presses on us,  is not abandonment. Will we look around to encounter the eyes of Christ who lives with us in that moment of desolation?

If anyone declares himself to be for Me in the presence of human beings, I will declare myself for him in the presence of my Father: Give Christ the courage of our faith in Him... this is a requirement of life in which God is not an accessory, but daily bread and the identity card of Himself. Does this challenge you or does it remain only a hidden desire? Even among the heads or leaders, says John, many believed in Him, but did not recognize Him openly because of the Pharisees, so as not to be expelled from the Synagogue. Would you risk your name for Him?

b) Key for the reading:

Do not fear! This is a key word, which, repeated three times, gives unity to the passage.

Probably it is a literary unity which joins together four isolated sayings. Faith requires as a basic disposition, not to fear. The themes which emerge: public proclamation of the Gospel (vv. 26-27), the availability to face martyrdom sacrificing physical life in order to attain eternal life (v. 28), images of trust in Providence (vv. 29-31), the courageous profession of faith in Christ (vv. 32-33).

The counter-positions are of a remarkable efficacy: veiled/unveiled, or covered/uncovered, hidden/known, darkness/light, body/soul, acknowledge/deny... which make evident the shore of a life lived evangelically. The veils of knowledge open themselves in the light and on the roofs of the universe the word heard in secret goes forth. The whole person is present to the heart of God, and if the creatures of the earth arouse tenderness, how much more the life of a creature-child. Belonging makes the difference in the witness.

v. 26. Do not be afraid of them, for everything now covered up will be uncovered, and everything now hidden will be made clear. That which is covered is not reserved for few but it is simply kept waiting to be manifested. There is a time to keep hidden and a time to make manifest, as Qoheleth would say... to know how to keep the truth in the secret of the days that go by: this is what forges the credibility of the manifestation. A seed cannot be thrown into the air, it is put into the furrow of the heart, it is left to itself while it is transformed in dying, and it is attentively followed until it germinates and comes to light, until the spike is ripe and ready to be harvested. Every word of God requires that it pass through the furrow of one’s own history in order to bear abundant fruit in due time.

v. 27. What I say to you in the dark, tell it in the daylight, and what you hear in whispers, proclaim from the housetops. Jesus speaks in secret; we speak in the light. God speaks, we listen and we become His mouth for others. The darkness of the listening, of putting it in, of assimilation, precedes the dawn of every proclamation. And when from the housetops the good news will be heard, people will be obliged to look up. A treasure of glory is enclosed in every moment of listening.  It is a moment of waiting which leads to the birth of light.

v. 28. Do not be afraid of those who kill the body, but cannot kill the soul; fear him rather who can destroy both body and soul in hell. One can be afraid of those who can strike that which is not man in fullness: to stop earthly life is not equal to death. The only really fearful is God. But God also after death preserves the life for the human being. That is why we should not fear. Whatever can happen, God is with humanity. This is a certainty which permits us to sail on even in the midst of the most devastating storms, because the treasures of humanity are taken care of in God, and from the hands of God nobody can snatch the elect.

v. 29. Can you not buy two sparrow for a penny? And yet not one falls to the ground without your Father knowing. There are two sparrows, one penny. A minimum value but which is in the thought of the Father. Where life beats, there God is, completely. This attentive care enchants and consoles... and invites listening to everything that vibrates and presents holy images of the Eternal splendor. Two sparrows: two very small creatures, of a brief life. The value of things is not given to them because of the greatness or the strength, but from what animates, that which is “body”. Therefore, every space where there is life which accepts the print of the Creator is a place of encounter with Him. It bears witness to His solicitude.

v. 30. Why every hair on your head has been counted. The solicitude or thoughtfulness of God extends itself even to counting the hair on our head. It is absurd, the way the Lord loves! When desolation and abandonment become the words  of our today, it will be enough to count some of our hair to remember the presence of God with us. The protection of the Heavenly Father will not be lacking for the disciples of Jesus. The Mystery which embraces all cannot be less towards those who have chosen to follow His Son, leaving the earth of their human securities.

v. 31. So there is no need to be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows! If God uses His thought for two sparrows how much more will He think of us! Fear disappears before this living image of human and religious sensibility of Christ. God is in favor of humanity, not against humanity. And if He keeps silence it is not because of lack of care, but because His thoughts of us have broader perspectives which go beyond the horizons of earthly temporality.

v. 32. If anyone declares himself for Me in the presence of human beings, I will declare Myself for him in the presence of My Father in Heaven. One must acknowledge oneself. When you find yourself in a square crowded to the full among unknown faces, you have the experience of being a foreigner. But as soon as you see a familiar face, your heart expands and you make your way until you get close to him. This recognizing others allows one to manifest oneself before others and to expose oneself. Christ in the midst of the crowd is the familiar face to recognize Him as the Master and Lord of our life. And what fear can we have if we think that He will declare us before His Father in Heaven?

v. 33. But the one who disowns Me in the presence of human beings, I will disown in the presence of My Father in Heaven. Could we think of a vengeful God? This is not a discourse to “put wood into the fire”, but a discourse which comes from an existential encounter. Christ will not be able to recognize as His own the one who will have chosen everything outside of Him. It is a discourse of fidelity and of respect for human liberty. God respects the creature to the point of not interfering in the space of his error. The Gospel demands belonging, not words and actions. The heart lives in heaven, when Christ is its beating of life!

4. PRAYER (Psalm 22:22-31)

I shall proclaim Your name to my brothers,

praise You in full assembly:

'You who fear Yahweh, praise Him!

All the race of Jacob,

honor Him! Revere Him,

all the race of Israel!'

For He has not despised nor disregarded

the poverty of the poor,

has not turned away His face,

but has listened to the cry for help.

Of You is my praise in the thronged assembly,

I will perform my vows before all who fear Him.

The poor will eat and be filled,

those who seek Yahweh will praise Him,

'May your heart live for ever.'

The whole wide world will remember

and return to Yahweh,

all the families of nations bow down before Him.

For to Yahweh, ruler of the nations,

belongs kingly power!

All who prosper on earth will bow before Him,

all who go down to the dust will do reverence before Him.

And those who are dead,

their descendants will serve Him,

will proclaim His name to generations

still to come;

and these will tell of His saving justice

to a people yet unborn:

He has fulfilled it.

5. CONTEMPLATION

Lord, among the veils of what I have received and have not given, may I be able to meditate and to accept everything from you. Let not my proclamation be an unconscious repeater, but rather a word possessed in so far as it has indwelling and digested for a long time. May the beauty of Your presence be unveiled to my senses, and in the mystery of Your unceasing giving may the veil of the encounter descend bringing You closer. The treasure hidden for centuries is now known, and from darkness to light, the dawn has raised for centuries, in a day without sunset which, shining on that which love has created and the sin being broken, it makes all things new. I will acknowledge You, my God, before my brothers because it will be impossible for me to hide the lamp that You have lit in my life. Who will give me the words which create me and make of my limitations a marvelous definition of what I am, I, in particular, like nobody else? Only You, Lord, have words of eternal life. And I will eat them and will offer them, at the cost of being devoured with them. It will be sufficient for me to feel that I am a sparrow to find again the hope when the tempest will fall on me, because the pennies that You give for the sparrows are not counted in Your knapsack. Amen.

The Elective Chapter of the Carmelite Monastery of Allentown, USA, was held 11 May 2017. The following were elected:

• Prioress:  Sr. M. Veronica Korb, O.Carm.
• 1st Councilor:  Sr. M. Gertrude Schrey, O.Carm.
• 2nd Councilor:  Sr. M. Therese Raubuch, O.Carm.
• Director of Novices:  Sr. M. Gertrude Schrey, O.Carm.
• Treasurer: M. Therese Raubuch, O.Carm.
• Sacristan:  Sr. M. Veronica Korb, O.Carm.

During the Provincial Chapter of the British Province held on 20-24 February and 8-12 May 2017 were elected:

• Prior Provincial:  Fr. Kevin Alban, O.Carm.
• First Councilor:  Fr. Brendan Grady, O.Carm.
• Second Councilor:  Fr. Joseph Chalmers, O.Carm.
• Third Councilor:  Fr. Patrick O'Keeffe, O.Carm.
• Fourth Councilor:  Fr. Patrick Fitzgerald-Lombard, O.Carm.

The  Institute of Spirituality in Asia (ISA) in cooperation with the Order of Carmelites-Philippine Province and the Institutum Carmelitanum (Rome) organized a Summer Course for 2017 on the “Life and Spirituality of St. Maria Magdalena de Pazzi” at the Institute of Formation and Religious Studies (IFRS) Audio-Visual Room from April 20 to 22.

In welcoming the 50-plus participants, Fr. Rico Ponce, O.Carm, Ph.D., noted how St. Maria Magdalena de Pazzi (1566-1607) is a great Carmelite mystic who can assist us in our spirituality but who is described by Fr. Fernando Millan Romeral, Prior General of the Order of Carmelites, as poorly understood.

Fr. Romeral was at the Mass for the saint’s 450^th birth anniversary April 2, 2016 at the monastery of Careggi in Florence, Italy where her body is venerated. He was among the concelebrants led by Cardinal Archbishop Giuseppe Betori of Florence, her birthplace.  

St. Maria Magdalena de Pazzi is being honored worldwide, said Fr. Ponce, including by conferences in Italy, Brazil and the Philippines “so as to deepen our knowledge of our sister, find connections to ourlives and, above all, to disseminate what we discover not only within the Carmelite family but also within the Church community in which we live.”

Fr. Ponce recalled being present of the meeting of the Institutum Carmelitanum of the Carmelite Order and was asked to organize a conference on the “Life and Spirituality of Sta maria magdalena de Pazzi” for the Carmelite Family in Asia.  

“I was referred to Fr. Miceal O’Neill, O.Carm. and I was very happy that he readily accepted my invitation to be our conference facilitator,” said Fr. Ponce in opening the summer course.

In her introduction, Dr. Marissa Cos, a.O.Carm, Assistant Dean of ISA, said that Fr. O’Neill was born in Ireland in 1952, is a member of the Irish Province and is the current Prior of the community of the International Center of St. Albert in Rome.

His special interests are Carmelite mysticism, justice and peace spirituality, and Latin American spirituality (having worked in a parish in Peru). He has been to the Philippines earlier in a team on justice and peace.

For the summer course Fr. O’Neill discussed the life of St. Maria Magdalena de Pazzi as well as her thoughts on and encounters with Jesus and Mary; the Passion of Jesus (“the Humanified Word”); the Blessed Trinity; the Holy Eucharist; Love; and the Church and consecrated life.

He also shared texts from the saint’s dialogues as well as the writings of her colleagues on her life and experiences, on which he invited comments by the participants.

Biography-wise, St. Maria Magdalena de Pazzi was born to a family significant in Florence like the Medicis. The only daughter of a public official, she was trained in the way of life of nobles.

She was called Lucrezia in honor of her grand aunt and also Catarina, which she loved because of its association with St. Catherine of Siena, a Dominican tertiary who contributed much to the Church and became one of its few female Doctors.

In intense prayer young Catarina loved speaking with the Lord and become so absorbed that everything else seemed to fade. She also loved books on prayers, one of which had a copy of St. Athanasius Creed on the Trinity and which she asked her mother to read again and again. The Creed made a lasting impression on her to the day she died. 

At age  9 St. Maria Magdalena of Pazzi already knew mental prayers, thanks to her spiritual director,  the Jesuit Fr. Rossi who also  introduced her to the works of Gaspar Loarte on the Passion of Christ, which also left a lasting impression on her.

In time she began to read the meditations of Granata and of Fulvio Androtio, according to a short account of her life (Breve raggualio) by Sr. Maria Pacifica del Tovaglio.  At 14 she could have read a chapter of the meditations of St. Augustine, but it was the Gospels she loved most.

When she was 10, she made a vow of virginity and gave herself fully to God; she rejected wealth in the same way that St. Francis of Assisi did. She is shown in one painting as having a mystical look, carrying a big book and wearing a crown of thorns.

At 15 she became a Carmelite because of her love for the Eucharist, which she showed even as a child accompanying her mother to take the Host and getting upset when she scolded her siblings or their servants. 

On January 25, 1583 Catarina entered the convent; she posed for a portrait by Santi de Tito at the insistence of her grieving mother. She stayed in Florence and chose Santa Maria degli Angeli – the first Carmelite monastery to be recognized (1450) -  because it allowed daily Holy Communion  at a time when receiving the Host was separate from hearing Mass, and also because it was an Observant Community binding itself to (and observing strictly) a Constitution in the spirit of renewal in the Church. 

On May 27 a year later St. Maria Magdalena de Pazzi was in danger of death and was left coughing by the nuns at the chapel. But she survived and recovered.

Her religious formation was at the hands of Dominicans Agostino Campi, governor of the convent, and Alessandro Caputti, a preacher who had a great sympathy with Carmelite spirituality and affective prayer. After 15 years with them, she and the other nuns had developed a truly contemplative spirit based on sound doctrine and solid liturgy.

Such a liturgy, plus an intense encounter every morning with the Word, led to a spirituality of a very rich dialogue with the Lord where she often fell into ecstasy. In one such state she also dictated 12  letters to the Pope, cardinals, priests, fellow religious and friends on Church renewal.

Her acts were recorded and commented upon by groups of three nuns at the behest of their spiritual directors. Her `works’ include Forty Days, The Dialogues, Eight Days of the Spirit, Revelations and Knowledge, The Probation of the Renewal of the Church and Short Teachings. Corrected and edited by her, they run into five volumes.

Major events in her life include Trinity Sunday 1584 when she began 40 days of intense prayer; Pentecost Sunday 1584 (Eight Days of the Spirit) of intense prayer which ended in revelations of the truths of the Christian faith; and the Period of Dialogue in 1585 when she received the gifts of a ring binding her to the Lord, an invisible stigmata plus a crown of thorns.

Fr. O’Neill explained that she suffered all the pain without showing anyone the wounds. She even prayed, “Lord, don’t give me all these favors but if you must, do not let anyone know.”

Another major event covers 1585-1590 when St. Maria Magdalena de Pazzi felt that God was bringing her into trial because she had sinned and was offending him. But she was also awarded by purification and consolation. She came to know Mary the Mother of Jesus, who appeared to and stayed with her to the point of taking away the knife when she wanted to end her life.

After 1590 St. Maria Magdalena de Pazzi had a relatively normal life; for 13 years she was prioress, mainly for the formation of novices. But she continued to experience union with God  - a very important aspect of Carmelite life, as in the cases of  Saints Teresa of Avila and John of the Cross  - and spiritual marriage with God in heart and mind through a ring.

In 1607 St. Maria Magdalena de Pazzi experienced `naked suffering’ and came to understand that suffering expresses the love of and for Jesus. According to the cause of her beatification, she wanted to suffer to prove her love for Jesus (“suffer and not die”).

More than physical pain, she was in pain all her life from  knowing that he is not loved. Co-nuns recorded her lamenting “Love is not loved”; her running to ask them, “Come and love Love”; and her crying out,“If I am not ready to suffer, my love is only partial.”

One of the 65 mystics of the Church, this saint died in 1607. In a sarcophagus in her monastery lies her incorrupt body - reduced in size and confirming what she had once said, “I know now that my sisters will not recognize me.”

People lost interest in her even after a short biography appeared on the extraordinary events of her life. But as resources become more available, we can now do scholarly studies on her and deepen our own spirituality,  Fr. O’Neill pointed out to the summer course participants of ISA.

In Bacong, Negros Oriental, Fr. O’Neill conducted the same seminar for the Carmelite Family in the Visayas region and in Guiguinto, Bulacan (Luzon area), for the Carmelite contemplative nuns.

Perla Aragon-Choudhury; April 27, 2017

Pope's Prayer Intentions for May 2017

Christians in Africa
That Christians in Africa, in imitation of the Merciful Jesus, may give prophetic witness to reconciliation, justice, and peace.

Lectio Divina May - Mayo - Maggio 2017

• Monday, May 1, 2017
  Lectio Divina: John 6,22-29
• Tuesday, May 2, 2017
  Lectio Divina: John 6,30-35
• Wednesday, May 3, 2017
  Lectio Divina: Sts. Philip and James, Apostles
• Thursday, May 4, 2017
  Lectio Divina: John 6,44-51
• Friday, May 5, 2017
  Lectio Divina: John 6,52-59
• Saturday, May 6, 2017
  Lectio Divina: John 6,60-69
• Sunday, May 7, 2017
  Lectio Divina: 4th Sunday of Easter (A)
• Monday, May 8, 2017
  Lectio Divina: John 10,11-18
• Tuesday, May 9, 2017
  Lectio Divina: John 10,22-30
• Wednesday, May 10, 2017
  Lectio Divina: John 12,44-50
• Thursday, May 11, 2017
  Lectio Divina: John 13,16-20
• Friday, May 12, 2017
  Lectio Divina: John 14,1-6
• Saturday, May 13, 2017
  Lectio Divina: John 14,7-14
• Sunday, May 14, 2017
  Lectio Divina: 5th Sunday of Easter (A)
• Monday, May 15, 2017
  Lectio Divina: John 14,21-26
• Tuesday, May 16, 2017
  Lectio Divina: John 14,27-31a
• Wednesday, May 17, 2017
  Lectio Divina: John 15,1-8
• Thursday, May 18, 2017
  Lectio Divina: John 15,9-11
• Friday, May 19, 2017
  Lectio Divina: John 15,12-17
• Saturday, May 20, 2017
  Lectio Divina: John 15,18-21
• Sunday, May 21, 2017
  Lectio Divina: 6th Sunday of Easter (A)
• Monday, May 22, 2017
  Lectio Divina: John 15,26 - 16,4a
• Tuesday, May 23, 2017
  Lectio Divina: John 16,5-11
• Wednesday, May 24, 2017
  Lectio Divina: John 16,12-15
• Thursday, May 25, 2017
  Lectio Divina: John 16,16-20
• Friday, May 26, 2017
  Lectio Divina: John 16,20-23a
• Saturday, May 27, 2017
  Lectio Divina: John 16,23b-28
• Sunday, May 28, 2017 - 14
  Lectio Divina: The Ascension of the Lord (A)
• Monday, May 29, 2017
  Lectio Divina: John 16,29-33
• Tuesday, May 30, 2017
  Lectio Divina: John 17,1-11a
• Wednesday, May 31, 2017
  Lectio Divina: Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary