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| white | The Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Society of Jesus
Outside SJ churches, Easter weekday Mass with associated readings
(This feast commemorates the solemn vows of the first companions in St. Paul's Basilica, Rome, 1541.)
Texts in the Jesuit Supplement. (Download Mass texts and Divine Office texts here) | Feast |
| Mass of the feast; Gloria, preface of the feast. |
| Cycle I | [SJ-Lect 2013] Rev 21:1-5a [LM 708.3]; Judith 12:18bcde, 19 [LM 709.2]; Lk 19:25-27 [LM 712.12]. |
| | Hours of the feast; Te Deum. |
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| Anniversary: | 57th anniversary of the death of P. Francis Keenan (HIB) (90) d. 2020 at Dublin, Ireland.  |
| Anniversary: | 56th anniversary of the death of P. José Afonso Marques Pinto (POR) (91) d. 2021 at Lisbon, Portugal. |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Society of Jesus. Feast. |
| | THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY, MOTHER OF THE SOCIETY OF JESUS (Feast)
On 22 April 1541, the Founding Fathers of the Society of Jesus made their solemn profession of vows in the newly instituted Order, during the celebration of Mass at Our Lady’s altar in the basilica of St Paul Outside-the-Walls in Rome. It was a crowning event in the history of the Society of Jesus. Today’s feast commemorates the birth of the vowed Society and its dedication to Mary as its Mother.
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| 1541 | St. Ignatius is unanimously elected General. But he refuses. 1595. St. Henry Walpole, S.J. is martyred at York. |
| 1581 | At the close of the Fourth General Congregation, Pope Gregory XIII received the new General, Father Claude Acquaviva, and promised to provide a foundation fund for the Roman College. |
| 1585 | (Day uncertain.) Discontent of certain Spanish Fathers at Father Claude Acquaviva's election: they wanted a Spanish general. Such a state of things requiring great firmness, Father General Acquaviva expelled a number of Professed Fathers. |
| 1952 | A Letter of Fr. General Janssens "On Continual Mortification." |
| 1972 | Rene Arnou, S.J. dies. He was a professor at the Gregorian, a scholar on spirituality and philosophy. |
| 1995 | Engelbert Mveng, S.J. is killed in his bed in the Cameroons. He was a theologian, artist, and scholar and writer on the history and culture of West Africa. He also founded the community of the Beatitudes. |
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