Fourth Sunday of Easter “Good Shepherd” Sunday Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 4/22/18 Gospel: John 10:11-18

Saturday of the Third Week of Easter Optional Memorial of St. Anselm, 1033-1109; bishop and doctor of the Church Poem: “Limbo,” by Sister Mary Ada Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 4/21/18 Gospel: John 6:60-69

Friday of the Third Week of Easter Spotlight on St. Francis Page; convert from Protestantism, arrested in the persecution of Catholics in England; joined the Jesuits, and was martyred in 1602 Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 4/20/18 Gospel: John 6:52-59

Thursday of the Third Week of Easter Spotlight on St. Alphege of Canterbury, 954-1012; resisted the Danes who invaded England, but was martyred Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 4/19/18 Gospel: John 6:44-51

Wednesday of the Third Week of Easter Spotlight on St. Apollonius the Apologist; Roman senator who defended Christianity to the Praetorian prefect, martyred 185 A.D. Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 4/18/18 Gospel: John 6:35-40

Tuesday of the Third Week of Easter Spotlight on St. Stephen Harding, 1050-1134; early Cistercian abbot, responsible for much of the order’s growth Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 4/17/18 Gospel: John 6:30-35

Monday of the Third Week of Easter Spotlight on St. Bernadette Soubirous, 1844-1879; beheld the Blessed Virgin Mary at Lourdes, France, in 1858 Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 4/16/18 Gospel: John 6:22-29

Third Sunday of Easter Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 4/15/18 Gospel: Luke 24:35-48

Saturday of the Second Week of Easter Spotlight on St. Peter Gonzales, 1190-1246; Dominican priest, chaplain of the Spanish court; retired to minister to Spanish and Portuguese seamen Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 4/14/18 Gospel: John 6:16-21

Friday of the Second Week of Easter Optional Memorial of St. Martin I, pope and martyr; pope from 649 until his death in 655; last of the early popes to be venerated as a martyr Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 4/13/18 Gospel: John 6:1-15