Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the role of women (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that the dignity and worth of women be recognized in every culture, and for an end to the discrimination they face in various parts of the world."
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Fourth Sunday of Easter
61st 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.
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[50] Acts 4:8-12; Ps 118:1+8-9, 21-23, 26+21+29; 1 John 3:1-2; John 10:11-18.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 4 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:
133rd anniversary of the death of F. Francis Prihoda (49) d. 1891 at Boroma, Portuguese Eastern Africa.
Anniversary:
9th anniversary of the death of F. Michael Hayward (89) d. 2015 at Preston, Lancs, England.
Jubilee:
Coral Jubilee of P. Ludwig REAL who celebrates 35 years since professing Final Vows today.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1541
In Rome the first Fathers made a triduum of prayer before electing the first General. On April 7th the sealed votes were opened, and all had chosen Ignatius for superior. St. Francis Xavier's vote was dated March 15, 1540.
1586
A draft of the lst Ratio Studiorum is sent by Claudio Acquaviva to all Provinces.
1618
Pedro Paez, S.J. discovers the source of the Blue Nile.
1665
At Bordeaux the death of Fr. John Surin, who entered the Society at the age of 15. He was a man of great sanctity and venerated after death as a saint. For 20 years he was cruelly tormented by evil spirits, after exorcizing certain Religious in a convent at Loudon.
1926
Letter of Fr. General Ledochowski De Usu Machinae Photographicae. Cameras should belong to the house, not the individual. They are not to be for recreation or time spent on trifles rather than for the greater glory of God.
