Easter: May 11th

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MASS READINGS

May 11, 2021 (Readings on USCCB website)

COLLECT PRAYER

Grant, almighty and merciful God, that we may in truth receive a share in the Resurrection of Christ your Son. Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever.

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• St. Mary's Mocha Surprise
• Vuccidrato -- Mary's Palms

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• Marian Hymn: Bring Flowers of the Fairest
• Marian Hymn: Stella Matutina
• May, the Month of Mary

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• Regina Coeli (Queen of Heaven)
• Easter Season II Table Blessing 4
• Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Litany of Loreto)
• Prayers for the Easter Season

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I will give thanks to you, O LORD, with all my heart, for you have heard the words of my mouth; in the presence of the angels I will sing your praise; I will worship at your holy temple, and give thanks to your name.

According to the 1962 Missal of St. John XXIII the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite, today is the feast of Sts. Philip and James. Their feast in the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite is celebrated on May 3.

According to the Roman Martyrlogy, today is the feast of St. Francis di Girolamo, a Jesuit priest from Italy who spent most of his life working as a rural missionary in the countryside near Naples. His sermons were short and vigorous, and he touched many hearts.

St. Francis di Girolamo
St. Francis di Girolamo was the famous Jesuit pulpit orator of Naples: a volume would hardly suffice to record the wonderful effect of his eloquence. "His voice" says Butler "was loud and sonorous, . . . and the style of his preaching simple and impressive. . . . His descriptions forcible and graphic and his pathetic appeals were sure to draw tears while his energy astounded and terrified," yet there must have been much of the magnetism of the popular orator in his manner for whenever he spoke whether in the streets of Naples — a constant habit of his — or in the church great crowds followed him and not a few of the sudden conversion made by him of hardened sinners sound like the records of some modern "Revivalist" preachers.

He was an earnest untiring faithful worker to the very last. Born in 1642, at a very early age he became a prefect in the "College of Nobles of the Society of Jesus" and soon after his novitiate was completed took high rank in the society. It was as a preacher and evangelist that he excelled. He died May 11th, 1716 and was beatified by Pius VII, on the feast of St. Joseph in 1806, and canonized by Gregory XVI, on Trinity Sunday 1839.

—Excerpted from Saints and Festivals of the Christian Church, by H. Pomeroy Brewster

Patron: Grottaglie, Italy

Things to Do:

• Read more about St. Francis in the Catholic Encyclopedia and in Butler's Lives of the Saints.