Second Sunday of Easter (Sunday of Divine Mercy) [Octave Day of Easter]. (Formerly known as Dominica in Albis (Sunday in White), Quasimodo Sunday or Low Sunday.)
Mass of the Sunday, Gloria, Creed, Preface of Easter I ("on this Easter day"); Easter Communicantes and Hanc igitur; double alleluia at dismissal.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Evening Prayer II of the Sunday. The Easter Octave ends. Week 2 of the Psalter.
Birthday:
126th birthday of P. Antoni F. BARANOWSKI (born this day in 1950).
Birthday:
131st birthday of P. Nigel JOHNSON (born this day in 1945).
Birthday:
94th birthday of P. Albert MUGARI (born this day in 1982).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1541
St. Francis Xavier, on this day, his 35th birthday, embarks from Lisbon for India, for a 13 month journey to Goa.
1648
At Madrid, the death of Fr. John de Ripalda, an eminent theologian who held the chair of theology as Salamanca.
1849
In Rome, revolutionaries searched for hidden Jesuits at Villa Macao, the country house near Porta Pia, where long before St. Aloysius and St. John Berchmans had come with the other Jesuit scholastics for weekly recreation.
1911
Manresa Retreat House property bought, Staten Island. Fox Hill villa. A retreat house exclusively for laymen. Under Fr. Shealy, the first retreat was given on September 8th.
1921
Saint Louis University’s radio station, WEW (We Enlighten the World) went on the air. It was only the second ratio station in the US.
1935
Lumen Vitae, a center for catechetics and religious formation is founded in Brussels.
1941
Joseph Stadelman, S.J. dies, founder of Xavier Society for the Blind.
1995
Louis Schillebeckyx, S.J. dies, a missionary in India, and the brother of Dominican theologian, Edward. He was age 87 and had been Provincial.
