Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the formation of men and women religious, and seminarians (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that men and women religious, and seminarians, grow in their own vocational journey through human, pastoral, spiritual and community formation, that leads them to be credible witnesses of the Gospel."
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Ascension of the Lord
58th World Communications Sunday (est. 1967)
Mass of the Vigil or of the Solemnity, Gloria, Creed, Preface of Ascension I - II Special Communicantes in Eucharistic Prayer I.
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[60] Acts 1:15-17, 20a, 20c-26; Ps 103:1-2, 11-12, 19-20; 1 John 4:11-16; John 17:11b-19.
Hours of the Solemnity. Te Deum.Week 3 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:
143rd anniversary of the death of P. Carlos Wehl (43) d. 1881 at Sofala, Province of Mozambique.
Anniversary:
72nd anniversary of the death of P. Joseph O'Neil (84) d. 1952 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
70th anniversary of the death of P. Gerald Landreth (50) d. 1954 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
55th anniversary of the death of P. Eric Edmonstone (62) d. 1969 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
44th anniversary of the death of P. Desmond Ford (65) d. 1980 at London, England.
Anniversary:
11th anniversary of the death of P. Peter Meiring (91) d. 2013 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
Birthday:
25th birthday of S. Maynard MASAUSO (born this day in 1999).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1546
Pope Paul III sent Diego Laynez and Alfonso Salmeron as his theologians to the Council of Trent.
De Choiseul writing to dâAubeterre, urges that the whole Society must be suppressed.
1774
Fr. Antonio Coltraro was imprisoned in Castel Santâ Angelo for almost two years because he was a friend of the confessor of a woman who foretold the death of Pope Clement XIV.
1981
A letter of this date, from Secretary of State, Cardinal Casaroli, speaks positively of Teilhard de Chardin in celebration of the centenary of his birth (May l,1881).
1987
Harold Small, S.J. dies. From 1960 to 75 he was the American Assistant to Father General.
