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.
Yr B
[44] Acts 4:32-35; Ps 118:2-4, 13-15, 22-24; 1 John 5:1-6; John 20:19-31.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Evening Prayer II of the Sunday. The Easter Octave ends. Week 2 of the Psalter.
Anniversary of the election of Pope Benedict XVI (2005)
Anniversary:
178th anniversary of the death of P. Michael McMahon (55) d. 1921 at Stonyhurst, Lancs, England.
Anniversary:
159th anniversary of the death of F. Daniel Shields (72) d. 1940 at Rainhill, Merseyside, England.
Anniversary:
137th anniversary of the death of P. Kenneth Flood (HIB) (31) d. 1962 at Dublin, Ireland.
Anniversary:
112th anniversary of the death of P. Francis X Sharp (76) d. 1987 at Wimbledon, London, England.
Anniversary:
81st anniversary of the death of P. John O'Holohan (HIB) (95) d. 2018 at Zomba, Malawi.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1527
At Alcala St. Ignatius was imprisoned for forty-two days.
1541
St. Ignatius is elected general, after declining the first election. He accepts the second election of April 13th, after praying over the decision and with the advice of his Franciscan confessor.
1602
At Tyburn, Ven. James Ducket, a layman, suffered death for publishing a work written by Robert Southwell.
1964
Joseph Glose dies. A Jesuit Educator, at the center of the Jesuit Education Association for 21 years.
1993
Joseph Sellinger dies. He had been President of Loyola College, Baltimore, for many years.
