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| white | Monday in the Octave of Easter |
| | Mass of the Octave. Gloria, sequence optional, Preface of Easter I ("on this day"); double alleluia at dismissal. |
| | [261] Acts 2:14, 22-32; Ps 16:1-2a+5, 7-8, 9-10, 11; Matt 28:8-15. |
| 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: | 104th anniversary of the death of P. Phelim Rooney (70) d. 1975 at Oxford, England.  |
| Anniversary: | 55th anniversary of the death of P. Peter Brook (BRI) (70) d. 2024 at Leeds, England. |
| Birthday: | 98th birthday of P. Nobert MUNEKANI (born this day in 1981). |
| Birthday: | 85th birthday of S. Manuel Chingole MÃRIO (born this day in 1994). |
| Birthday: | 92nd birthday of S. Talent RUNGANO (born this day in 1987). |
| Jubilee: | Oak Jubilee of P. Thomas PLASTOW who celebrates 80 years of Priesthood today. |
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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