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.
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[55] Acts 8:5-8, 14-17; Ps 66:1-3, 4-5, 6-7, 16+20; 1 Pet 3:15-18; John 14:15-21.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 2 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:
94th anniversary of the death of P. Richard Wiber (49) d. 1956 at Boscombe, England.
Anniversary:
80th anniversary of the death of P. Patrick Benson (46) d. 1970 at New York, NY, USA.
Anniversary:
46th anniversary of the death of P. Stefan Hirjak (88) d. 2004 at Ivanka, Slovakia.
Anniversary:
35th anniversary of the death of P. Pete Titland (76) d. 2015 at Tacoma, WA, USA.
Birthday:
57th birthday of S. Rodrick CHIWAYA (born this day in 1993).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1561
Gonzalo da Silveira, dies a martyr in Africa.
1605
The election of Pope Paul V who put an end to the prolonged controversies De Auxiliis and would allow no censure to be attached to Father Molina's book.
1613
Fr. Jacques Quentin and Br. Gilbert du Thet arrive to settle on Mt. Desert Island, Maine. It is short lived as the English capture and take over the place.
1815
The readmission of the Society into Spain. But the fathers were again exiled on July 31, 1820.
1909
The death in Quito, Ecuador, of Italian Jesuit Luis Sodiro, a key scientific figure in Latin America, who developed a botanic collection that formed the base for the National Botanical Garden inQuito.
