LITURGY for Monday and Tuesday, June 5 and 6, 2000 Monday, June 5, 2000 Monday June 5: Feast of Saint Boniface, Bishop and Martyr Red vestments First Reading: Acts 19: 1-8 Psalms: Psalm 68: 2-7 Gospel Reading: John 16: 29-33 Feast of Saint Boniface, Bishop and Martyr    Known as the "Apostle of Germany," Saint Boniface was born in the 670's in Wessex, England. He became a Benedictine and became a missionary at the approval of Pope Gregory II who ordained him a bishop in 722 and placed him ecclesiastically in charge of Germany. His zeal and perseverance paid off in converting most of this land, producing many saintly monks and nuns. One account tells of him chopping down a huge oak tree which had been dedicated to the god Jupiter. Boniface then proceeded to use the wood from this tree to build a church dedicated to St. Peter. Pope Gregory III saw the fruits and added Bavaria and what is today Austria to Boniface's charge, making the saint an archbishop. Boniface founded numerous dioceses establishing monasteries and abbeys in each. On a trip to Holland, while waiting to confirm 52 newly-Baptized Dutch Catholics, he was murdered by a hostile troop of heathens on June 5, 755. His body was buried at the now-famous abbey in Fulda which Boniface had not only founded, but had managed to receive pontifical exemption for the monastery, a first in the history of the Church. Fulda is the site where the bishops of western Germany still convene today for synods. Tuesday, June 6, 2000 Tuesday June 6: Easter Weekday and Feast of Saint Norbert, Bishop White vestments First Reading: Acts 20: 17-27 Psalms: Psalm 68: 10-11, 20-21 Gospel Reading: John 17: 1-11 Feast of Saint Norbert, Bishop    Saint Norbert is best known for his work in the reform of the Church in the 12th Century as a holy bishop and for founding the Norbertines, an order of canons regular. Norbert was born into French nobility and through Godincidences in his life, gave all he had to the poor, dedicating his life totally to doing God's work. St. Norbert was a close friend of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux and patterned much of his life on this teacher who composed the "Memorare." Norbert died peacefully in Magdeburg near Germany in 1134 and was canonized by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582. His relics can be found in the abbey of his name in Strahov, Bohemia where they were permanently placed in 1627.