Mass of the day, Gloria, Creed, Preface of Easter I - V. Where Ascension is celebrated on the Seventh Sunday of Easter, today's second reading & gospel may be from Seventh Sunday of Easter if desired.
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[55] Acts 8:5-8, 14-17; Ps 66:1-3, 4-5, 6-7, 16+20; 1 Pet 3:15-18; John 14:15-21.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 2 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:
68th anniversary of the death of P. Julius Pogany (SRI) (75) d. 1985 at Galle, Sri Lanka.
Birthday:
77th birthday of P. Emmanuel Kabamba NSHIMBI (born this day in 1976).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1542
Xavier reaches Goa, after more than one year's journey. FB
1544
In a letter to St. Ignatius, the Carthusians speak highly in praise of the Society and make it a perpetual sharer in all their prayers and good works.
1610
M. Ricci dies Beijing. A mathematician and missionary, he was the most eminent missionary to China.
1610
The death in Peking (Beijing) of Mateo Ricci, the Italian Jesuit mathematician and founder of the modern missions in China, the ï¬rst to introduce the Christian faith there.
1647
By decrees 24 and 27 of the Seventh General Congregation, the wearing of the biretta was forbidden to lay-Brothers.
1716
At Naples, the death of St. Francesco de Jeronimo (St. Francis Jerome), the apostle of that city and kingdom.
1824
St. Regis Seminary is opened in Florissant, Mo. by Fr. Van Quickenborne. It is the first RC school in USA for the higher education of Indians.
1982
Horace McKenna, S.J. dies . Maryland. Friend of the poor. He explained and lived that the two symbols of the priest are the towel (footwashing)and the stole. He also said that the main job of the Superior is to "spray praise" around the community.
