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 B
[63] Acts 2:1-11; Ps 104:1+24, 29b-30, 31+34; Gal 5:16-25 (Year B) or 1 Cor 12:3b-7, 12-13; Jn 15:26-27, 16:12-15 (Year B) 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.
[RM]
Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Matthias, apostle (cf. Acts 1:26) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Birthday:
86th 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.
