Separate Vigil Mass texts in RM with separate set of readings. An elongated Vigil Liturgy of the Word is one option.
Mass of Pentecost; Gloria, Sequence, Creed, Preface of Pentecost, special Communicantes in Eucharistic Prayer I, Double alleluia at the dismissal.
Yr C
[63] Acts 2:1-11; Ps 104:1+24, 29b-30, 31+34; Rom 8:8-17 (Year C) or 1 Cor 12:3b-7, 12-13; Jn 14:15-16, 23b-26 (Year C) or Jn 20:19-23.
Hours of the Solemnity. Te Deum. At Evening Prayer II, double alleluia at dismissal
After Evening Prayer, the Paschal Candle is extinguished, and moved to the Baptistery, where it is kept in a place of honor so that the candles of the newly baptised may be lit from it.
The weeks of the year resume with Week 6.
Week 2 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:
108th anniversary of the death of P. Domingos da Piedade LuiĚs Fernandes (81) d. 1938 at Kotagiri, India.
Anniversary:
102nd anniversary of the death of P. Thomas Gardner (71) d. 1944 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
56th 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.
