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22 Saturday
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Saturday in the Seventh Week of Easter
Mass of the day.
Preface of Ascension or of Easter "...in this time."
Cycle I
[302] Acts 28:16-20, 30-31;Ps 11:4, 5+7; John 21:20-25.
Hours of the day.
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St Rita of Cascia, religious
Optional
(Common of Holy Men and Women Readings from the Common of Saints: [566B] Phil 4:4-9 (#740.10); Ps 1:1-2, 3, 4+6 (#739.1); Luke 6:27-38 (#742.18).)
In the evening:
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Vigil of Pentecost
Solemnity
Mass of the Vigil; Gloria, sequence, creed, Preface of Pentecost, special Communicantes in Eucharistic Prayer I. Double alleluia at the dismissal
[62] Gen 11:1-9 or Exod 19:3-8a, 16-20b or Ezek 37:1-14 or Joel 3:1-5; Ps 104:1-2, 24+35, 27-28, 29b-30; John 7:37-39.
For pastoral reasons, the texts of the day Mass may also be used.
Anniversary:
58th anniversary of the death of F. Henry Mercer (76) d. 1963 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
19th anniversary of the death of P. Cedric Myerscough (76) d. 2002 at Cape Town, RSA.
Jubilee:
Ruby Jubilee of P. Paul MAYERESA who celebrates 40 years in the Society today.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1569
At Rome the Society was installed by Pope St. Pius V in the College of Penitentiaries, fathers of different nationalities there resident being Required to act as confessors in St. Peter’s. At the Suppression, Clement XIV replaced the Jesuits by Conventuals.
1611
Pierre Biard and Ennemond Masse are the first Jesuits to set foot in New France, Arcadia.
1617
At Nagasaki the glorious martyrdom of Blessed John Baptist Machado, beheaded for the faith. On hearing his death sentence, he sang the Te Deum.
1965
Pedro Arrupe was elected the 28th superior general of the Society of Jesus in GC31
