May. 25 Wednesday of the Sixth Week of Easter; Optional Memorials of St. Bede the Venerable, priest and doctor; St. Gregory VII, pope; St. Mary Magdalene de Pazzi, virgin, Opt. Mem.

Gospel Verse, John 14:16: I will ask the Father and he will give you another Advocate to be with you always. There are three saints that are offered as Optional Memorials today. First is St. Bede, the Venerable, who was born in England. A Benedictine, he was “the most observant and the happiest of all monks.” His writings were so full of sound doctrine that he was called “Venerable” while still alive. He wrote commentaries on Holy Scripture and treatises on theology and history. He died at Jarrow, England, in 753.