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.
Yr A
[43] Acts 2:42-47; Ps 118:2-4, 13-15, 22-24; 1 Pet 1:3-9; John 20:19-31.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Evening Prayer II of the Sunday. The Easter Octave ends. Week 2 of the Psalter.
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Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Simeon, second bishop of Jerusalem (whom may have been the one journeying with Cleopas along the road to Emmaus.) (cf. Mt. 13:55) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:
22nd anniversary of the death of P. Edward Ennis (73) d. 1992 at London, England.
