Mass of the day.
Preface of Ascension or of Easter "...in this time."
Cycle I
[300] Acts 22:30; 23:6-11;Ps 16:1-2a+5, 7-8, 9-10, 11; John 17:20-26.
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).)
Anniversary:
90th anniversary of the death of F. Henry Mercer (76) d. 1963 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
51st anniversary of the death of P. Cedric Myerscough (76) d. 2002 at Cape Town, RSA.
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
