Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: Fundamental rights (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "We pray for those who risk their lives while fighting for fundamental rights under dictatorships, authoritarian regimes and even in democracies in crisis."
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Second Sunday of Easter (Sunday of Divine Mercy) [Octave Day of Easter]. (Formerly known as Dominica in Albis (Sunday in White), Quasimodo Sunday or Low Sunday.)
Mass of the Sunday, Gloria, Creed, Preface of Easter I ("on this Easter day"); Easter Communicantes and Hanc igitur; double alleluia at dismissal.
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[44] Acts 4:32-35; Ps 118:2-4, 13-15, 22-24; 1 John 5:1-6; John 20:19-31.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Evening Prayer II of the Sunday. The Easter Octave ends. Week 2 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:
114th anniversary of the death of P. Peter Prestage (65) d. 1907 at Fort Victoria, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
108th anniversary of the death of F. José António Martins (36) d. 1913 at Jette-St-Pierre, Brussels .
Anniversary:
57th anniversary of the death of P. George Loseby (50) d. 1964 at Johannesburg, RSA.
Anniversary:
53rd anniversary of the death of P. Raul Sarreira (79) d. 1968 at Vila Coutinho, Province of Mozambique.
Jubilee:
Diamond Jubilee of P. Oskar WERMTER who celebrates 60 years in the Society today.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1542
St. Ignatius sent Pedro Ribadenaira, aged fifteen, from Rome to Paris for his studies. Pedro had been admitted into the Society in l540.
1573
At the Third General Congregation, Pope Gregory XIII suggests that we elect a non-Spanish to be General. Eventually the Belgian Mercurian will be elected.
1607
In China died Brother Benito Goes.
1632
At Lima, Peru, Fr. Ruiz de Montoya died. A Portuguese, he was called the Apostle of Paraguay, for he converted thousands.
1673
At Lima died Ven. Father Francis de Castillo, a Portuguese, justly regarded as the Apostle of Peru.
1985
Translation of the body of Fr. Felice Capello, "the confessor of Rome" to the Church of St. Ignatius near the confessional he occupied almost daily for thirty years. He died in 1962.
