67th World Day for Prayers for Priestly and Religious Vocations ('Good Shepherd' Sunday) (est. 1963)
Mass of the day, Gloria, Creed, Preface of Easter I - V.
Yr B
[50] Acts 4:8-12; Ps 118:1+8-9, 21-23, 26+21+29; 1 John 3:1-2; John 10:11-18.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 4 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:
149th anniversary of the death of P. Carlos Wehl (43) d. 1881 at Sofala, Province of Mozambique.
Anniversary:
78th anniversary of the death of P. Joseph O'Neil (84) d. 1952 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
76th anniversary of the death of P. Gerald Landreth (50) d. 1954 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
61st anniversary of the death of P. Eric Edmonstone (62) d. 1969 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
50th anniversary of the death of P. Desmond Ford (65) d. 1980 at London, England.
Anniversary:
17th anniversary of the death of P. Peter Meiring (91) d. 2013 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
Birthday:
31st 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.
1643
The death in Canada of Enemundo Massé, the first apostle to preach the Good News in that territory subsequently known as New France.
1767
De Choiseul writing to d’Aubeterre, urges that the whole Society must be suppressed.
1774
Fr. Antonio Coltraro was imprisoned in Castel Sant’ 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.
