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 A
[43] Acts 2:42-47; Ps 118:2-4, 13-15, 22-24; 1 Pet 1:3-9; 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:
70th anniversary of the death of P. John Waligora (78) d. 1968 at Katondwe, Zambia.
Anniversary:
63rd anniversary of the death of P. Patrick Walsh (64) d. 1975 at Pretoria, RSA.
Anniversary:
56th anniversary of the death of P. Richard Copeland (69) d. 1982 at Melbourne, Australia.
Anniversary:
51st anniversary of the death of P. Edward Warner (73) d. 1987 at Wimbledon, London, England.
Anniversary:
32nd anniversary of the death of P. James Carroll (72) d. 2006 at Dublin, Ireland.
Birthday:
64th birthday of P. Elias Bboloka Bubala NCHIMUNYA (born this day in 1974).
Jubilee:
Blue Sapphire Jubilee of F. Felix MAJICHI who celebrates 65 years in the Society today.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1564
Pope Pius the V yielded to Fr. General Lainez' request and approved that the Society should have no Cardinal Protector, but be under the Pope's immediate protection.
1564
Pope Pius V yield to Father General Laynez' request and approved that the Society should have no Cardinal Protector, but be under the pope's immediate protection.
1602
Cardinal Bellarmine's first entrance into Capua. He entered on foot, reciting prayers, and carrying the arm of St. Stephen, Protomartyr.
1602
The birth of Athanasius Kircher, S.J., scientist and polymath.
1706
G. J. Kamel, S.J. Jesuit brother dies. The camellia flower is named after him.
1729
Catherine the Great, is born. Empress for 34 years, she saved the Society of Jesus.
1929
St. Jose Maria Rubio, S.J. dies, Madrid. Apostle of Madrid.
2014
Paolo Molinari, SJ dies. Postulator General of the Society from 1957 to 2008. Worked on the canonization of 39 Saints and Blesseds, age 90.
