Mass of the day.
Preface of Ascension or of Easter "...in this time."
Cycle I
[302] Acts 28:16-20, 30-31;Ps 11:4, 5+7; John 21:20-25.
Hours of the day.
In the evening:
red
Vigil of Pentecost
Solemnity
Mass of the Vigil; Gloria, sequence, creed, Preface of Pentecost, special Communicantes in Eucharistic Prayer I. Double alleluia at the dismissal
[62] Gen 11:1-9 or Exod 19:3-8a, 16-20b or Ezek 37:1-14 or Joel 3:1-5; Ps 104:1-2, 24+35, 27-28, 29b-30; John 7:37-39.
For pastoral reasons, the texts of the day Mass may also be used.
Anniversary:
68th anniversary of the death of P. Anthony Berridge (60) d. 2011 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1546
Peter Canisius is ordained, age 25. He has been a Jesuit for three years.
1769
Clement XIV, the newly-elected Pope began to show coldness towards the Society.
1836
Ampere, Andre-Marie dies in Marseille. He was a Jesuit Alumnus in the time of the suppression. He was born Jan. 20, 1775 in Lyon. A physicist, he founded and named the science of electrodynamics as Electromagnetism.
1933
Charles Simons, of the California Province, is the first Jesuit ordained in China.
2008
Norrie Clarke, S.J. dies, age 93. Philosopher, writer, Fordham University. Founder of the International Philosophical Quarterly.
