Mass of the day.
Preface of Ascension or of Easter "...in this time."
Cycle I
[302] Acts 28:16-20, 30-31;Ps 11:4, 5+7; John 21:20-25.
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).)
red
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).)
In the evening:
red
Vigil of Pentecost
Solemnity
Mass of the Vigil; Gloria, sequence, creed, Preface of Pentecost, special Communicantes in Eucharistic Prayer I. Double alleluia at the dismissal
[62] Gen 11:1-9 or Exod 19:3-8a, 16-20b or Ezek 37:1-14 or Joel 3:1-5; Ps 104:1-2, 24+35, 27-28, 29b-30; John 7:37-39.
For pastoral reasons, the texts of the day Mass may also be used.
Anniversary:
222nd anniversary of the death of P. Carlos Wehl (43) d. 1881 at Sofala, Province of Mozambique.
Anniversary:
151st anniversary of the death of P. Joseph O'Neil (84) d. 1952 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
149th anniversary of the death of P. Gerald Landreth (50) d. 1954 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
134th anniversary of the death of P. Eric Edmonstone (62) d. 1969 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
123rd anniversary of the death of P. Desmond Ford (65) d. 1980 at London, England.
Anniversary:
90th anniversary of the death of P. Peter Meiring (91) d. 2013 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
Birthday:
104th birthday of S. Maynard MASAUSO (born this day in 1999).
