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| red | St Matthias, apostle | Feast |
| Mass of the feast; Gloria, preface of the feast. |
| Cycle I | [564] Acts 1:15-17, 20-26; Ps 113:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8; John 15:9-17.
Perhaps found under May 13. |
| | Hours of the feast; Te Deum. |
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In the evening: |
| white | Vigil of Ascension | Solemnity |
| Mass of the Vigil; gloria, creed, Preface of the Ascension I or II, special Communicantes in Eucharistic Prayer I. |
| | [61] Acts 7:55-60; Ps 97:1-2, 6-7, 9; Rev 22:12-14, 16-17, 20; John 17:20-26. |
| For pastoral reasons, the texts of the day Mass may also be used. |
| Evening Prayer I of the Ascension. |
| [RM] | Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Matthias, apostle (cf. Acts 1:26) [from the Roman Martyrology]. |
| Birthday: | 69th birthday of S. Anesu MUSHUMBA (born this day in 1998). |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 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. |
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