Mass of the day. Preface of Easter I - V "...in this time."
Cycle II
[296] Acts 18:23-28;Ps 47:2-3, 8-9, 10; John 16:23b-28.
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.)
In the evening:
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Vigil of Ascension
Solemnity
Mass of the Vigil; gloria, creed, Preface of the Ascension I or II, special Communicantes in Eucharistic Prayer I.
[59] Acts 1:12-14; Ps 27:1, 4, 7-8; 1 Pet 4:13-16; John 17:1-11a.
For pastoral reasons, the texts of the day Mass may also be used.
Evening Prayer I of the Ascension.
Anniversary:
118th anniversary of the death of P. Domingos da Piedade LuiĚs Fernandes (81) d. 1938 at Kotagiri, India.
Anniversary:
112th anniversary of the death of P. Thomas Gardner (71) d. 1944 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
66th 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.
