Catholic Fire

Monday of the Fourth Week of Easter Today's Mass Readings "I am the good shepherd, and I know mine and mine know me, just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I will lay down my life for the sheep.I have other sheep that do not belong to this fold.These also I must lead, and they will hear my voice, and there will be one flock, one shepherd." (John 10: 14 - 16) Today's Saints: Sts. Tiburtius, Valerian and Maximus, Martyrs On This Day in Catholic History 1191 - Giacinto Bobo became Pope Coelestinus III. 1434 - The foundation stone of Cathedral St. Peter and St. Paul in Nantes, France was laid. Famous Birthday 1866 - Anne Sullivan Macy , Helen Keller 's teacher (d. 1936)

Optional Memorial of St. Stanislaus Today's Mass Readings Today's Homily: Fr. Philip N. Powell, OP Church of the Incarnation, Irving, TX Saint of the Day: St. Stanislaus, Bishop and Martyr On This Day in Catholic History 1079 - Bishop Stanislaus of Krakow is executed by order of Bolesław II of Poland. 1963 -- Pope John XXIII put forth his encyclical "On peace in truth, justice, charity and liberty." 1997 -- In Italy, fire damaged the 500-year-old San Giovanni Cathedral, home of the Shroud of Turin, which some consider Christ's burial cloth. 2004 -- Pope John Paul II celebrated Easter Mass with calls for world leaders to resolve conflicts in Iraq, the Holy Land and Africa. Famous Birthday: 1928 -- age 80 -- Ethel Kennedy , widow of the late Robert Kennedy. Born in Chicago, Illinois to Ann Brannack, a Roman Catholic , and George Skakel, a Protestant , Ethel was raised Catholic in Greenwich, Connecticut .

Today's Mass Readings Saint of the Day: St. Ludger, Priest Famous Birthday: Robert Frost, poet