May 16
SAINT SIMON STOCK
Religious
Optional Memorial
In the Anglo-Irish province: Memorial
an Englishman, died at Bordeaux in the mid-thirteenth century. He has been venerated in the Carmelite Order for his personal holiness and his devotion to Our Lady. A liturgical celebration in his honor was observed locally in the fifteenth century, and later extended to the whole Order.
From the Common of Holy Men (Religious)
OFFICE OF READINGS
The Second Reading
From the Flaming Arrow by Nicholas of France, Prior General
(Chapter 6)
I will lead her into the desert, and there I will speak to her heart
Was it not our Lord and Savior Who led us into the desert, as a mark of His favor, so that there He might speak to our hearts with special intimacy? It is not in public, not in the market place, not amid noise and bustle that He shows…
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