Mass of the day.
Preface of Ascension or of Easter "...in this time."
Cycle II
[297] Acts 19:1-8;Ps 68:2-3ab, 4-5acd, 6-7ab; John 16:29-33.
Hours of the day.
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St John of Avila, priest and doctor
Optional
(Common of Pastors, or Common of Doctors of the Church Readings from the Common of Saints: [561A] Acts 13:46-49 (#720.1); Ps 23:1b-3, 4, 5, 6 (#721.2); Matt 5:13-19 -730.1.)
[RM]
Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Job, sage (cf. Jb. 42:1-2) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:
158th anniversary of the death of F. John Krechel (78) d. 1942 at Chishawasha, S. Rhodesia.
Birthday:
139th birthday of P. Heribert Ferdinand MÃœLLER (born this day in 1961).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1569
St. John of Avila dies. Spiritual Director: "The Master". A special friend of the Society of Jesus and of St. Ignatius - an "honorary Jesuit."
1616
In Poland, a disgruntled ex-Jesuit, Jerome Zahorowski, published a notorious attack on the Society of Jesus called the "Monita Secreta Societatis Jesu." The document supposedly revealed the secret instructions directing the machinations of Jesuits. It was for a long time one of the most influential anti-Jesuit tracts ever published.
1657
In China died Fr. Stephen LeFevre, called "a second Xavier." 1773. Empress Maria Teresa of Austria changed her friendship for the Society into hatred, because she had been led to believe that a written confession of hers (found and printed by Protestants) had been divulged by the Jesuits.
1848
The Austro-Hungarian government decreed the suppression of the Society of Jesus in all its empire.
