Separate Vigil Mass texts in RM with separate set of readings. An elongated Vigil Liturgy of the Word is one option.
Mass of Pentecost; Gloria, Sequence, Creed, Preface of Pentecost, special Communicantes in Eucharistic Prayer I, Double alleluia at the dismissal.
Hours of the Solemnity. Te Deum. At Evening Prayer II, double alleluia at dismissal
After Evening Prayer, the Paschal Candle is extinguished, and moved to the Baptistery, where it is kept in a place of honor so that the candles of the newly baptised may be lit from it.
The weeks of the year resume with Week 7.
Week 3 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:
134th anniversary of the death of P. Edward Parry (60) d. 1922 at Katondwe, N. Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
128th anniversary of the death of P. Francis Richartz (73) d. 1928 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
82nd anniversary of the death of P. Thomas Warrington (73) d. 1974 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
74th anniversary of the death of P. David Murphy (HIB) (38) d. 1982 at Dublin, Ireland.
Anniversary:
72nd 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.
