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| white | Wednesday in the Octave of Easter |
| | Mass of the Octave. Gloria, sequence optional, Preface of Easter I ("on this day"); double alleluia at dismissal. |
| | [263] Acts 3:1-10; Ps 105:1-2, 3-4, 6-7, 8-9; Luke 24:13-35. |
| Hours of the day; Te Deum, double alleluia at dismissal.
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| [RM] | Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture Sts. Mary Cleopas, Salome and the other women disciples of Jesus (cf. Jn. 19:25, Mk. 16:1-2) [from the Roman Martyrology]. |
| Anniversary: | 55th anniversary of the death of P. Phelim Rooney (70) d. 1975 at Oxford, England.  |
| Anniversary: | 6th anniversary of the death of P. Peter Brook (BRI) (70) d. 2024 at Leeds, England. |
| Birthday: | 49th birthday of P. Nobert MUNEKANI (born this day in 1981). |
| Birthday: | 36th birthday of S. Manuel Chingole MÃRIO (born this day in 1994). |
| Birthday: | 43rd birthday of S. Talent RUNGANO (born this day in 1987). |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 1774 | Christopher de Beaumont, Archbishop of Paris, wrote to Clement XIV, regretting the Brief of Suppression. In 1775 the French Cardinals declined to receive the Brief because it threatened disaster to the Church. |
| 1774 | Christopher de Beaumont, Archbishop of Paris, wrote to Pope Clement XIV, regretting the Brief of Suppression. |
| 1928 | The Jesuit Church of the Blessed Sacrament, in Hollywood, CA, while yet unfinished, holds an opening service. Cecil is born. deMille attends and Jackie Coogan does a reading. |
| 1934 | Leo O'Donovan, S.J. is born. Theologian, President of Georgetown University. |
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