Second Sunday of Easter (Sunday of Divine Mercy) [Octave Day of Easter]. (Formerly known as Dominica in Albis (Sunday in White), Quasimodo Sunday or Low Sunday.)
Mass of the Sunday, Gloria, Creed, Preface of Easter I ("on this Easter day"); Easter Communicantes and Hanc igitur; double alleluia at dismissal.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Evening Prayer II of the Sunday. The Easter Octave ends. Week 2 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:
205th anniversary of the death of P. William Vierin (43) d. 1883 at Mopeia, Mozambique.
Anniversary:
159th anniversary of the death of F. Francis Simonis (87) d. 1929 at Dunbrody, RSA.
Anniversary:
103rd anniversary of the death of P. Josip Weissgerber (CRO) (63) d. 1985 at Zagreb, Croatia.
Anniversary:
93rd anniversary of the death of P. John Monaghan (74) d. 1995 at Portland, USA.
Anniversary:
80th anniversary of the death of P. Vital Dias Pereira (87) d. 2008 at Lisbon, Portugal.
Birthday:
154th birthday of P. J. Paul BRASSIL (born this day in 1934).
Birthday:
123rd birthday of P. Sebastian M. MALAMBO (born this day in 1965).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1541
Ignatius is elected General again, after refusing or declining the first election results.
1541
On his 35th birthday, St. Francis Xavier embarked from the quay of the Tagus River known as the Place of Tears to go to India with two other Jesuits. The voyage took them 13 months.
1580
Father Robert Parson, Edmund Campion and Brother Ralph Emerson and others set out from Rome for the English mission. They entered England by different routes and in different disguises.
1906
Fr. General Luis Martin dies.
1949
St. Benedict Center, Cambridge, MA, under Fr. Leonard Feeney, is placed under interdict.
1959
Francis P. Donnelly, S.J. dies New York Province. Teacher, writer, author of many textbooks on English.
