Mass of the day, Gloria, Creed, Preface of Easter I - V. Where Ascension is celebrated on the Seventh Sunday of Easter, today's second reading & gospel may be from Seventh Sunday of Easter if desired.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 2 of the Psalter.
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Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Matthias, apostle (cf. Acts 1:26) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Birthday:
36th birthday of S. Anesu MUSHUMBA (born this day in 1998).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1546
Fathers Laynez and Salmeron were sent by Pope Paul III as his theologians to the Council of Trent.
1547
Letter of St. Ignatius to the scholastics at Coimbra on Religious Perfection.
1610
Henry IV of France was assassinated, and a storm of obloquy broke over the Society in France.
1648
Pope Innocent X by a special Brief reproved Bishop Palafox of Angelopolis, Mexico, for suspending the Jesuits. Palafox had at one time professed greater attachment to the Society, but after the Jesuits refused to pay certain contributions or tithes which they deemed unjust, he became a bitter enemy.
1905
Jean Danielou, S.J. is born. A Cardinal in his last years.
1952
The inauguration in Bogotá, Colombia, of Casa de Ejercicios de Jesús Redentor, for workers and rural farmers.
1978
Letter of Pedro Arrupe to the whole Society on Inculturation.
1987
Joseph Lynch, S.J. dies Seismologist, Fordham University.
