Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For ecclesial movements and groups (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that ecclesial movements and groups may daily rediscover their evangelizing mission, and that they place their own charisms at the service of the world’s needs."
20 Saturday
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Saturday in the Sixth Week of Easter
Mass of the day. Preface of Easter I - V "...in this time."
Cycle I
[296] Acts 18:23-28;Ps 47:2-3, 8-9, 10; John 16:23b-28.
Hours of the day.
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St Bernardine of Siena, priest
Optional
(Common of Pastors: For Missionaries Readings from the Common of Saints: [566] Acts 4:8-12; Ps 40:2, 4, 7-8, 8-9, 10, 11 (#721.3); Luke 9:57-62 (#742.19).)
In the evening:
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Vigil of Ascension
Solemnity
Mass of the Vigil; gloria, creed, Preface of the Ascension I or II, special Communicantes in Eucharistic Prayer I.
[59] Acts 1:12-14; Ps 27:1, 4, 7-8; 1 Pet 4:13-16; John 17:1-11a.
For pastoral reasons, the texts of the day Mass may also be used.
Evening Prayer I of the Ascension.
Anniversary:
70th anniversary of the death of P. Emil Schmitz (82) d. 1953 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
55th anniversary of the death of P. Kenneth Tasman (78) d. 1968 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1521
Ignatius was seriously wounded at Pamplona, Spain, while defending its fortress against the French.
1521
St. Ignatius was seriously wounded while defending the Castle of Pamplona against the French.
1622
The death of Pedro Paez, S.J., a Spanish missionary to Ethiopia, the second apostle of Ethiopia. He reached Ethiopia in 1603 after 15 years of journey because en route he was enslaved by Turkish pirates for 7 years. He was the first European to see the source of the blue Nile, he wrote a history of Ethiopia and learned several languages.
1823
Saint Louis University (St. Louis College) is founded.
1961
In a letter dated 20 May, Fr. Swain, Vicar-General formally approved the Institute of Jesuit Sources. The plan was launched unofficially the previous year when Fr. Janssens gave Fr. Ganss permission to start work on an English version of the Constitutions.
1968
J. Franklin (Buck) Ewing, S.J. dies anthropologist, missiologist.
1973
The Society of Jesus allowed in Switzerland after a Referendum.
1974
Jean Cardinal Danielou, SJ, dies in Paris, engaged in ministry.
