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| white | Fifth Sunday of Easter |
| Mass of the day, Gloria, Creed, Preface of Easter I - V. |
| | Yr B | [53] Acts 9:26-31; Ps 22:26-27, 28+30, 31-32; 1 John 3:18-24; John 15:1-8.
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| Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum.
Week 1 of the Psalter. |
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| Anniversary: | 134th anniversary of the death of P. Eugénio Witz (79) d. 1953 at Soutelo, Braga, Portugal.  |
| Anniversary: | 73rd anniversary of the death of F. Alphonse McAndrew (CDA) (82) d. 2014 at Pickering, ON, Canada. |
| Birthday: | 96th birthday of NS. Dennis Simbarashe ALUBEMBE (born this day in 1991). |
| Birthday: | 105th birthday of P. Nelson NYAMAYARO (born this day in 1982). |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 1534 | Peter Faber is ordained a priest, the first of the companions to become a priest. He says his first Mass on July 22. |
| 1675 | Pere Jacques Marquette dies, age 37, at Ludington, Michigan. Explorer of the Mississippi. |
| 1675 | The death in Canada, at age 37, of James Marquette, Jesuit missionary who gained lasting reknown for exploring the Mississippi River. |
| 1711 | Ruggero Giuiseppi Boscovich, S.J. is born. Astronomer and Mathematician. |
| 1975 | Mass for the closing of Woodstock College, New York City. |
| 1985 | Thomas Moore, S.J. dies. He was Editor of the Sacred Heart Messenger and director of the Apostleship of Prayer. |
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