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.
Yr B
[63] Acts 2:1-11; Ps 104:1+24, 29b-30, 31+34; Gal 5:16-25 (Year B) or 1 Cor 12:3b-7, 12-13; Jn 15:26-27, 16:12-15 (Year B) or Jn 20:19-23.
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 8.
Week 4 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:
115th anniversary of the death of F. Henry Mercer (76) d. 1963 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
76th 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
