Mass of the day, Gloria, Creed, Preface of Easter I - V. Where Ascension is celebrated on the Seventh Sunday of Easter, today's second reading & gospel may be from Seventh Sunday of Easter if desired.
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[55] Acts 8:5-8, 14-17; Ps 66:1-3, 4-5, 6-7, 16+20; 1 Pet 3:15-18; John 14:15-21.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 2 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:
146th anniversary of the death of F. Thomas Kunsztowicz (56) d. 1895 at Stara Wies, Poland.
Anniversary:
141st anniversary of the death of P. Henry Depelchin (78) d. 1900 at Calcutta, India.
Anniversary:
52nd anniversary of the death of P. Marian Folta (82) d. 1989 at Lusaka, Zambia.
Anniversary:
47th anniversary of the death of F. Joseph Boron (91) d. 1994 at Lusaka, Zambia.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1595
St. Philip Neri, priest. Memorial. Most devoted to the Society of Jesus, he had asked to be admitted to the Society, but St. Ignatius saw that it was not his vocation.
1645
St. Mariana Parades of Quito dies. She lived a solitary, with extreme penances. She spent each Friday night in a coffin and had three hours of sleep each night and died at age of 26. Her feast in June 2. She was directed by Jesuits and is listed in one Jesuit martyrology.
1647
Massachusetts passed a law banning Jesuits; they would be put to death if they returned after banishment.
1647
The state of Massachusetts passed a law banning Jesuits. First time offenders are banished. Second time offenders will be executed.
1673
Ching Wei-San (Emmanuel de Sigueira) dies, the first Chinese Jesuit priest.
1803
Archbishop Carroll and Bishop Neale of Maryland write to Fr. General Gruber that thirteen ex-Jesuits beg to be admitted to the Society, together with a few other priests.
1839
St. Francis Jerome is canonized by Pope Gregory XVI.
1871
At Paris the Communards executed five French Jesuits: Frs Olivaint, Canbert and deBengy today, and Ducoudray and LeClerc two days earlier.
