Mass of the day, Gloria, Easter sequence, Renewal of Baptismal Promises (in place of Creed), Preface of Easter I ("on this day") special Communicantes and Hanc igitur; double alleluia at dismissal.
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[42] Acts 10:34a, 37-43; Ps 118:1-2, 16-17, 22-23; Col 3:1-4 or 1 Cor 5:6b-8; John 20:1-9.
Alternative gospel (from the Vigil): [41] Matt 28:1-10 At an evening Mass, Luke 24:13-35 (Lect. [46]) may be used.
Mass is to be celebrated on with great solemnity. In place of the Creed on this day, the renewal of baptismal promises takes place (as at the Vigil) and the people are sprinkled with water blessed at the Vigil, during which a song of baptismal character should be sung. The entrance stoups to the church should also be filled with the same water. [PS 97]
The Paschal Candle burns at all Hours and Masses today. It is kept in the sanctuary near the altar or ambo until Pentecost Sunday. [PS 99]
Hours of Easter Sunday.
The Easter Vigil takes the place of the Office of Readings.
Where it is the custom, the tradition of "Baptismal Vespers" with a procession to the font is to be diligently observed. (GILH, 213)
It is most appropriate to conclude Night Prayer throughout the Easter Season with
the Regina Coeli (GILH, 92).
After Night Prayer the paschal candle is extinguished. It remains by the ambo or altar, and is lit throughout Easter Time at Mass and at other celebrations until Pentecost inclusive.
During the Octave, a Funeral Mass is permitted, but Ritual Masses (including Nuptial Masses) are prohibited, and all solemnities are delayed until after the Second Sunday of Easter.
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Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Dismas, the good thief (cf. Lk. 23:41-42) [from the Roman Martyrology].
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Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture the Annunciation to Mary (cf. Lk. 1:26-38) [from the Roman Martyrology].
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Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Isaac, patriarch (cf. Gn. 15-35) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:
143rd anniversary of the death of F. Jacob Glesinsky (33) d. 1892 at Boroma, Portuguese Eastern Africa.
Anniversary:
140th anniversary of the death of M. Amandus Leroeye (28) d. 1895 at Bombay, India.
Anniversary:
103rd anniversary of the death of P. Peter Molloy (58) d. 1932 at Preston, Lancs, England.
Anniversary:
84th anniversary of the death of F. Ignatius Matzke (81) d. 1951 at Grahamstown, RSA.
Jubilee:
Coral Jubilee of P. Heribert Ferdinand MÜLLER who celebrates 35 years since professing Final Vows today.
14th Anniversary of the erection of the Southern Africa Province.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1524
Paschase Broet, one of the first ten companions of Ignatius, is ordained a priest long before he met St. Ignatius.
1538
Diego Hozes, S.J. dies. The first Jesuit to die. (even if the Society was not yet officially approved). He was a Spanish priest who died in Padua.
1563
The First Sodality of Our Lady of Fatima Prima Primaria was started at the Roman College by a young Belgian Jesuit, Jean Leunis.
1563
The first Sodality of Our Lady, Prima Primaria, was begun in the Roman College by a young Belgian Jesuit named John Leunis (Leonius).
1586
St. Margaret Clitheroe dies on this day, pressed to death. New RM. She protected some Jesuit Fathers.
1634
Andrew White, S.J. arrives in Maryland. Mass said on St. Clement Isle, River Potomac, not far from St. Inigo's. This is the beginning of Catholicism in English speaking America).
1847
Virgil Barber, S.J. dies. A convert to Catholicism, his wife and five children become religious, one of them a Jesuit.
1904
Francis Xavier is chosen by Pius X as the patron of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith.
1920
Instruction/Letter of Father General Ledochowski on the use of the telephone. No general permission is given to scholastics to use the phone, and no phones in private rooms.
1962
Fr. Felice Cappello dies, known as "the Confessor of Rome", for hearing confessions at St. Ignatius Church.
1968
Paul VI approve new statutes for Sodalities, now CLC.
1980
Paul Dent, one of the first Missouri Province Jesuits who went to India in the 1920's, dies.
