Mass of the day.
Preface of Ascension or of Easter "...in this time."
Cycle II
[300] Acts 22:30; 23:6-11;Ps 16:1-2a+5, 7-8, 9-10, 11; John 17:20-26.
Hours of the day.
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Our Lady of Fatima
Optional
(Common of the Blessed Virgin Mary Readings from the Common of Saints: [563A] Isa 61:9-11 (#707.9); Ps 45:11-12, 14-15, 16-17 (#709.3); Luke 11:27-28.)
Anniversary:
94th anniversary of the death of P. Domingos da Piedade LuiĚs Fernandes (81) d. 1938 at Kotagiri, India.
Anniversary:
88th anniversary of the death of P. Thomas Gardner (71) d. 1944 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
42nd anniversary of the death of P. Manuel Lopes (86) d. 1990 at Porto, Portugal.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
The Traditional feast of St. Robert Bellarmine. RM
1572
The election of Gregory XIII to succeed St. Pius V. To him the Society owes the foundation of the Roman and German Colleges.
1638
In London died Father Richard Blount, for mor than twenty years Superior, Vice-Provincial, and Provincial of the English Mission and Province.
1704
Louis Bourdaloue, S.J. dies, age 72 in Paris. He is the most famous of all Jesuit preachers. It was said that places were reserved 48 hours before he spoke.
1758
At Madrid, Pombalâs slanderous pamphlets against the Society were burnt in the public square.
