8th Day of Prayer for the Church in China (est. 2008)
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.
[RM]
Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture Bl. Johanna, wife of Chuza, disciple (cf. Lk. 8:1b-3) [from the Roman Martyrology].
[RM]
Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Manaen, prophet in Antioch (cf. Acts 13:1) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:
100th anniversary of the death of F. Martin Meyringer (81) d. 1915 at Diest, Belgium.
Anniversary:
84th anniversary of the death of F. Thomas Segura (77) d. 1931 at S. Salvador da BaÃa, Brasil.
Anniversary:
59th anniversary of the death of F. William Blackledge (56) d. 1956 at Petworth, W. Sussex, England.
Anniversary:
15th anniversary of the death of P. Donal McKenna (67) d. 2000 at Limbe, Malawi.
Anniversary:
11th anniversary of the death of P. Bertold Beck (GER) (84) d. 2004 at Köln, Germany.
Birthday:
52nd birthday of +P. Dhanapalan RAYAR (born this day in 1963).
