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| white | Wednesday in the Octave of Easter |
| | Mass of the Octave. Gloria, sequence optional, Preface of Easter I ("on this day"); double alleluia at dismissal. |
| | [263] Acts 3:1-10; Ps 105:1-2, 3-4, 6-7, 8-9; Luke 24:13-35. |
| Hours of the day; Te Deum, double alleluia at dismissal.
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| | Archdioceses of Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg, South Africa [SACBC] | | white | St Zeno of Verona, Bishop | Optional | | Common of Pastors |
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| Birthday: | 78th birthday of F. Benedict NGAWASEKE (born this day in 1945). |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| St. Joseph Moscati, lay person, doctor, in Naples. Feast, in the New RM. Influenced by Jesuits and Jesuit parish. |
| 1541 | A First edition of the Constitutions approved, and signed by the six companions present in Rome: Ignatius, Lainez, Salmeron, Codure, Broet, and Jay. |
| 1573 | At Rome, the opening of the Third General Congregation during which Everard Mercurian was elected General. |
| 1599 | Fr. Luis de Molina’s book De Scientia Media, received the approval of the Spanish Inquisition, but further inflamed theological controversies. |
| 1671 | Francis Borgia, the 3rd General, is canonized by Pope Clement X. 1726. In Cairo, Claudio Sicard dies, a missionary and explorer of the Nile. |
| 1977 | Bishop Vincent Kennally, S.J. dies Missionary to the Pacific Islands. |
| 2010 | Beatification of Bernardo de Hoyas. |
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