May 9, 2025
A reading from
the holy Gospel according to John6:52-59
The Jews quarreled among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his Flesh to eat?” Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the Flesh of the Son of Man and drink his Blood, you do not have life within you. Whoever eats my Flesh and drinks my Blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day. For my Flesh is true food, and my Blood is true drink. Whoever eats my Flesh and drinks my Blood remains in me and I in him. Just as the living Father sent me and I have life because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on me will have life because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your ancestors who ate and still died, whoever eats this bread will live forever.” These things he said while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.
The Gospel of the Lord.
May 9, 2025
Saint Who?
Saints Who Were Mothers
Saint Adelaide of Burgundy
Widow († 999) Feast: December 16
Adelaide was princess of Burgundy, queen of Italy, and Holy Roman Empress. Yet the power of her birth did not protect her from violence and feuds within her own family.
Adelaide’s father arranged her marriage when she was only two years old as part of a treaty to end the fighting for control of Italy. She married Lothair at the age of sixteen and became queen. But a few years later, Lothair died suddenly, probably poisoned by Berengarius, the man who succeeded him. King Berengarius strongly encouraged Adelaide to marry his son, and when she refused to marry the son of her husband’s likely murderer, he imprisoned her in a castle.
Because of the unrest, the king of Germany, Otto, led an army into Italy, rescued Adelaide from her prison, and married her. When he became Holy Roman Emperor, she became Holy Roman Empress. Later, Adelaide was tested by a stepson who resented losing the kingdom, a daughter-in-law who estranged her from her eldest son, and the stress of governing a kingdom as regent for her grandson late in her life. Yet despite physical danger, political backbiting, and violent family squabbles, Adelaide was universally loved and respected for her gentle nature and gracious diplomacy. Through her Christlike example of forgiveness, she sought to bring peace to her people and to her own family.
Loving Father, show us how to forgive
and teach others to forgive.
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