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| white | Fourth Sunday of Easter |
| 129th World Day for Prayers for Priestly and Religious Vocations ('Good Shepherd' Sunday) (est. 1963) |
| Mass of the day, Gloria, Creed, Preface of Easter I - V. |
| | Yr A | [49] Acts 2:14a, 36-41; Ps 23:1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6; 1 Pet 2:20b-25; John 10:1-10.
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| Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum.
Week 4 of the Psalter. |
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| Anniversary: | 161st anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Hornig (75) d. 1931 at Bulawayo, S. Rhodesia.  |
| Anniversary: | 135th anniversary of the death of P. Christopher Wilmot (88) d. 1957 at Heythrop, England. |
| Anniversary: | 79th anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Groselj (69) d. 2013 at Nangoma, Zambia. |
| Birthday: | 142nd birthday of P. Christopher CHATTERIS (born this day in 1950). |
| Birthday: | 140th birthday of P. O. Kenneth JOHNSON (born this day in 1952). |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 1586 | The first and trial edition of the Ratio Studiorum was issued under Fr. General Claudio Acquaviva. |
| 1586 | The first Ratio Studiorum was issued under Father General Claude Aquaviva. |
| 1842 | Jesuits return to Canada. Superior Peter Chazelle is appointed. 1864. Father Peter de Smet left St. Louis to evangelize the Sioux Indians. |
| 1893 | Robert I. Gannon, S.J. is born. Staten Island. He was President of Fordham University, and a famous after dinner speaker. |
| 1955 | Pedro Leturia, S.J. dies Rome, historian. He was the founding director of the Archivum Historicum Societatis, Jesu. |
| 1996 | Francis McCool, S.J. dies. He had been a professor of Scripture at the Biblicum in Rome. |
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