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16 april 2023 – Second Sunday of Easter (or Sunday of Divine Mercy) – Year A

Jesus, come into my heart as you entered the upper room behind closed doors and make me recognize You, with Thomas, for Your glorious wounds, my Lord and my God.

The Missionary Family Saint Nicodemus is a dawning Catholic missionary community, including a clerical religious institution - already constituted as public association of believers, in sight to be erect by law in diocesan religious institute, from the Bishop of Luebo (Democratic Republic of Congo) - and, as I plan, also a female religious institution and an churchly association. The inspiration of the birth of the Community, has sprung from the consideration of the life of Saint Nicodemus Abate on the Kellerana mountain, that is found in the territory of Mammola (Reggio Calabria), in Italy. This correspondent Site Web, intends to develop a function of information and cultural and religious formation, also to comply to one of the works of apostolat foreseen by the statutes of the same Community.

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The Gospel of Sunday

16 april 2023 – Second Sunday of Easter (or Sunday of Divine Mercy) – Year A

A week later Jesus came.

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John (Jn 20:19-31)

On the evening of that first day of the week,

when the doors were locked, where the disciples were,

for fear of the Jews,

Jesus came and stood in their midst

and said to them, “Peace be with you.”

When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side.

The disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord.

Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you.

As the Father has sent me, so I send you.”

And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them,

“Receive the Holy Spirit.

Whose sins you forgive are forgiven them,

and whose sins you retain are retained.”

Thomas, called Didymus, one of the Twelve,

was not with them when Jesus came.

So the other disciples said to him, “We have seen the Lord.”

But he said to them,

“Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands

and put my finger into the nailmarks

and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.”

Now a week later his disciples were again inside

and Thomas was with them.

Jesus came, although the doors were locked,

and stood in their midst and said, “Peace be with you.”

Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here and see my hands,

and bring your hand and put it into my side,

and do not be unbelieving, but believe.”

Thomas answered and said to him, “My Lord and my God!”

Jesus said to him, “Have you come to believe because you have seen me?

Blessed are those who have not seen and have believed.”

Now, Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples

that are not written in this book.

But these are written that you may come to believe

that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God,

and that through this belief you may have life in his name.

"Two Houses in Tshikapa"

The visit of the Founder to Tshikapa in September 2018

... the Founder and Superior General of the Family Missionary Saint Nicodemus - Association Clerical, an association in view of becoming a Religious Institute of diocesan right, was in Tshikapa, in the Diocese of Luebo, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where he met his Confreres living in Africa. ...

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Prayer to Saint John the Baptist
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O glorious Saint John Baptist,
teacher of truth, prayer and penitence,
friend of Jesus and protector our,
teach us your virtues.

For all the men, especially for how much they invoke you,
you get from the Lord
the well of the soul and trust in his providence.

Help us to seek a sober and essential life, that,
in the Holy Spirit,
has to the center the communion with the Father and with the brothers,
and is light of salvation for how much they live in the evil and they are oppressed of it.

With the support of Maria Regina,
obtain, for the whole world, the respect of the human life and the peace.

St. John Baptist

is invoked

as Patron, from

Saint Nicodemus Family,

as it is

emblematic figure

of his fundamental charism.