Mass of the day.
Preface of Ascension or of Easter "...in this time."
Cycle I
[298] Acts 20:17-27;Ps 68:10-11, 20-21; John 17:1-11a.
Hours of the day.
red
St Pancras, martyr
Optional
(Common of Martyrs Readings from the Common of Saints: [563] Rev 19:1, 5-9a (#738.3); Ps 103:1-2, 3-4, 8-9, 13-14, 17-18 (#739.6); Matt 11:25-30 (#742.4).)
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Sts Nereus and Achilleus, martyrs
Optional
(Common of Martyrs Readings from the Common of Saints: [562] Rev 7:9-17 (#714.2); Ps 124:2-3, 4-5, 7-8 (#715.3); Matt 10:17-22 (#718.1).)
Anniversary:
184th anniversary of the death of P. Carlos Wehl (43) d. 1881 at Sofala, Province of Mozambique.
Anniversary:
113th anniversary of the death of P. Joseph O'Neil (84) d. 1952 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
111th anniversary of the death of P. Gerald Landreth (50) d. 1954 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
96th anniversary of the death of P. Eric Edmonstone (62) d. 1969 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
85th anniversary of the death of P. Desmond Ford (65) d. 1980 at London, England.
Anniversary:
52nd anniversary of the death of P. Peter Meiring (91) d. 2013 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
Birthday:
66th 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.
