Mass of the day.
Preface of Ascension or of Easter "...in this time."
Cycle I
[299] Acts 20:28-38;Ps 68:29-30, 33-35a, 35bc-36ab; John 17:11b-19.
Hours of the day.
red
St Christopher Magallanes, priest and martyr, and his companions, martyrs
Optional
(Common of Martyrs Readings from the Common of Saints: [566A] Rev 7:9-17 (#714.2); Ps 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9 (#715.2); John 12:24-26 (#718.5).)
Anniversary:
131st anniversary of the death of P. Edward Parry (60) d. 1922 at Katondwe, N. Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
125th anniversary of the death of P. Francis Richartz (73) d. 1928 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
79th anniversary of the death of P. Thomas Warrington (73) d. 1974 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
71st anniversary of the death of P. David Murphy (HIB) (38) d. 1982 at Dublin, Ireland.
Anniversary:
69th anniversary of the death of P. Stanislaw Nowicki (73) d. 1984 at Lusaka, Zambia.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1568
Pope St. Pius V wrote a letter to the Archbishop of Cologne asking him to befriend the Society of Jesus and its college in that city.
1758
Laurence Ricci is elected General. He was chosen to guide the Society through a sea of storms. He will die in 1775 after imprisonment in Castel S. Angelo.
1925
Pius XI canonizes Peter Canisius, with Teresa of the Child Jesus and Mary Madeleine Postal, Madeleine Sophie Barat, John Vianney, and John Eudes. Canisius is declared a Doctor of the Church.
2003
The death of Victor Mertens, S.J. age 90. He had been Vice-Provincial and Provincial of Central Africa, Counselor to Fr. General and Assistant for Africa from 1971-80.
