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Give Us This Day May 2020 MAY 2020 ® Canticle of Zechariah (Benedictus) Luke 1:68-79 lessed be the Lord, the God of Israel; Bhe has come to his people and set them free. He has raised up for us a mighty savior, born of the house of his servant David. Through his holy prophets he promised of old that he would save us from our enemies, from the hands of all who hate us. He promised to show mercy to our fathers and to remember his holy covenant. This was the oath he swore to our father Abraham: to set us free from the hands of our enemies, free to worship him without fear, holy and righteous in his sight all the days of our life. You, my child, shall be called the prophet of the Most High; for you will go before the Lord to prepare his way, to give his people knowledge of salvation by the forgiveness of their sins. In the tender compassion of our God the dawn from on high shall break upon us, to shine on those who dwell in darkness and the shadow of death, and to guide our feet into the way of peace. Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever. Amen. Give Us This Day® Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 W 2 W [St. Joseph the Worker] St. Athanasius May 2020 ✛ Takashi Nagai ✛ Ade Bethune Fr. Michael Casey Elisabeth of Schönau W W W W W W W 3 Fourth Week of Easter 4 5 6 7 8 9 Mary DeTurris Poust ✛ Rachel Held Evans ✛ St. Jutta ✛ Bd. Mary Catherine ✛ Jean Vanier ✛ Mother Mary Ignatius ✛ St. Pachomius St. Cyril of Alexandria Hosffman Ospino of Cairo Sr. Pat Kozak Hayes Marilyn McEntyre Within the Word: Of Sheep and Sr. Ruth Burrows Bp. Richard Sklba Shepherds Sr. Carolyn Osiek 10 Fifth Week of Easter W 11 W 12 W 13 W 14 R 15 W 16 W [Sts. Nereus and [Our Lady of Fatima] St. Matthias [St. Isidore] Achilleus] Alice Camille ✛ English Carthusian ✛ René Voillaume ✛ Unita Zelma Blackwell ✛ St. Matthias ✛ St. Dymphna ✛ Alban Butler Martyrs Sr. Jeana Visel Card. Carlo Maria Fr. Lawrence Mick Mary Jo Leddy St. Gertrude of Helfta Within the Word: A Mutual Rachelle Linner Martini Indwelling Fr. Patrick Hartin 17 Sixth Week of Easter W 18 W 19 W 20 W 21 W 22 W 23 W [St. John I] [St. Bernardine of Siena] The Ascension [St. Rita of Cascia] of the Lord Loretta Ross ✛ Ruth and Naomi ✛ St. Celestine V ✛ Sr. Irene McCormack ✛ Ade Bethune ✛ St. Toribio Romo ✛ Jane Addams Fr. Paul Boudreau Sr. Lynn Elisabeth Walter Burghardt St. Leo the Great González Fr. Anthony Gittins Within the Word: From Beginning to Meadows Susan Pitchford End: Praise God! Sr. Irene Nowell 24 Seventh Week of Easter W 25 W 26 W 27 W 28 W 29 W 30 W [St. Bede the Venerable; St. Philip Neri [St. Augustine St. Gregory VII; St. Mary of Canterbury] Magdalene de’ Pazzi] Fr. Adrien Nocent ✛ St. Philip Neri ✛ St. Melangell of Wales ✛ Bd. Margaret Pole ✛ St. Ursula ✛ Marc Sangnier ✛ Bd. John of Prado Sr. Macrina Wiederkehr Abbot John Klassen Melissa Musick Ledóchowska Sr. Colleen Gibson Within the Word: These Mysterious David Farina Nussbaum St. Bede the Venerable Sadducees Fr. Ronald Witherup Turnbloom 31 Pentecost Sunday R Fr. Ronald Rolheiser Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 W 2 W [St. Joseph the Worker] St. Athanasius ✛ Takashi Nagai ✛ Ade Bethune Fr. Michael Casey Elisabeth of Schönau W W W W W W W 3 Fourth Week of Easter 4 5 6 7 8 9 Mary DeTurris Poust ✛ Rachel Held Evans ✛ St. Jutta ✛ Bd. Mary Catherine ✛ Jean Vanier ✛ Mother Mary Ignatius ✛ St. Pachomius St. Cyril of Alexandria Hosffman Ospino of Cairo Sr. Pat Kozak Hayes Marilyn McEntyre Within the Word: Of Sheep and Sr. Ruth Burrows Bp. Richard Sklba Shepherds Sr. Carolyn Osiek 10 Fifth Week of Easter W 11 W 12 W 13 W 14 R 15 W 16 W [Sts. Nereus and [Our Lady of Fatima] St. Matthias [St. Isidore] Achilleus] Alice Camille ✛ English Carthusian ✛ René Voillaume ✛ Unita Zelma Blackwell ✛ St. Matthias ✛ St. Dymphna ✛ Alban Butler Martyrs Sr. Jeana Visel Card. Carlo Maria Fr. Lawrence Mick Mary Jo Leddy St. Gertrude of Helfta Within the Word: A Mutual Rachelle Linner Martini Indwelling Fr. Patrick Hartin 17 Sixth Week of Easter W 18 W 19 W 20 W 21 W 22 W 23 W [St. John I] [St. Bernardine of Siena] The Ascension [St. Rita of Cascia] of the Lord Loretta Ross ✛ Ruth and Naomi ✛ St. Celestine V ✛ Sr. Irene McCormack ✛ Ade Bethune ✛ St. Toribio Romo ✛ Jane Addams Fr. Paul Boudreau Sr. Lynn Elisabeth Walter Burghardt St. Leo the Great González Fr. Anthony Gittins Within the Word: From Beginning to Meadows Susan Pitchford End: Praise God! Sr. Irene Nowell 24 Seventh Week of Easter W 25 W 26 W 27 W 28 W 29 W 30 W [St. Bede the Venerable; St. Philip Neri [St. Augustine St. Gregory VII; St. Mary of Canterbury] Magdalene de’ Pazzi] Fr. Adrien Nocent ✛ St. Philip Neri ✛ St. Melangell of Wales ✛ Bd. Margaret Pole ✛ St. Ursula ✛ Marc Sangnier ✛ Bd. John of Prado Sr. Macrina Wiederkehr Abbot John Klassen Melissa Musick Ledóchowska Sr. Colleen Gibson Within the Word: These Mysterious David Farina Nussbaum St. Bede the Venerable Sadducees Fr. Ronald Witherup Turnbloom 31 Pentecost Sunday R Key ✛ Blessed Among Us by Robert Ellsberg Reflection / Within the Word Author Fr. Ronald Rolheiser [ ] Optional Memorial Vestment colors: R Red W White Give Us ® ThısDayDAILY PRAYER FOR TODAY’S CATHOLIC Peter Dwyer, Publisher ◆ Mary Stommes, Editor Ælred Senna, OSB, Associate Editor Catherine Donovan, Associate Publisher Robert Ellsberg, “Blessed Among Us” Author Irene Nowell, OSB, Liturgical Editor, Morning and Evening Susan Barber, OSB, Intercessions Editorial Advisors James Martin, SJ ◆ Irene Nowell, OSB Carolyn Y. Woo ◆ Timothy Radcliffe, OP Kathleen Norris ◆ Ronald Rolheiser, OMI www.giveusthisday.org Give Us This Day, Liturgical Press PO Box 7500, Collegeville, MN 56321-7500 Customer Service: 888-259-8470, [email protected] © 2020 by the Order of Saint Benedict, Collegeville, Minnesota. Printed in the United States of America. Give Us This Day® (ISSN 2159-2136, print; 2166-0654, large print; 2159-2128, online) is published monthly by Liturgical Press, an apostolate of Saint John’s Abbey, 2950 Saint John’s Road, Collegeville, Minnesota. Rev. John Klassen, OSB, Abbot. For complete publication information see page 367. Published with the approval of the Committee on Divine Worship, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. CONTENTS May 2020 ◆ Volume 10, Issue 5 Holy Conversation Richard Gaillardetz .............................. 5 Teach Us to Pray: Praying through Transitions Fr. James Martin ......... 7 A Pentecost Prayer Valerie Schultz .................................. 8 Prayers and Blessings ............................................. 10 Prayer at Night .................................................. 14 Daily Prayer . 16 Order of Mass .................................................. 327 Liturgy of the Word (with Holy Communion) ...................... 353 Hymns ........................................................ 356 Guide to Lectio Divina ........................................... 362 About the Cover Br. Ælred Senna .................................. 366 Holy Conversation Richard Gaillardetz et’s consider two stories. Both are from the Acts of the LApostles, an account of the growing joys and pains of the early church, a text we will be encountering in the liturgy over the next month. The first story recounts the conversion of two men, a Roman centurion named Cornelius and the apostle Peter (Acts 10). Cornelius is a “God-fearer,” that is, a gentile sympathetic to Jewish belief. An angel instructs Cornelius to seek out Peter. As Cornelius’s servants are en route, bearing the invitation, Peter has a disturbing vision in which he is instructed by God three times to eat unclean food. Each time Peter declines out of obedience to Jewish dietary restrictions. Still puzzling over the meaning of the vision, Peter accepts the invitation from Cornelius and travels to his home where, we are told, Peter “conversed with him” about the Good News of Christ. Their conversation leads Cornelius to convert to the Gospel. Yet Peter undergoes his own conversion of sorts. Through their conversation, perhaps moved by Cornelius’s spiritual openness, Peter abandons his far-too-cramped sense of the scope of God’s love: “In truth, I see that God shows no partiality. Rather, in every nation whoever fears him and acts uprightly is acceptable to him” (Acts 10:34-35). The second story occurs a few chapters later and it too is concerned with the mission to the gentiles (Acts 15). The church in Jerusalem gathers together to discuss whether gentile converts to Christianity need be circumcised as the Mosaic Law required. Some insisted that circumcision was still necessary; others disagreed. “After much debate had taken place,” Peter, Paul, and Barnabas each gave moving 5 6 testimony to the capacious breadth of God’s saving action. Finally, a letter is sent to Antioch, where the dispute began, affirming that “it is the decision of the Holy Spirit and of us not to place on you any burden beyond the necessities” (Acts 15:28). Here, we see the fruit of genuine debate, far removed from the ideological posturing that marks so much ecclesial discourse today. This first church “council” allowed differing voices to have their say, creating a space for the Holy Spirit to bring new insight. In each story we find church leadership learning to listen to the Spirit by way of what we might call “holy conversation.” Prior to his encounter with Cornelius, Peter thought he already knew all he needed about God’s saving work. In like manner, some of the leaders in Jerusalem were certain they already knew what God required of Gentile converts.
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