Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the use of the new technologies (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that the use of the new technologies will not replace human relationships, will respect the dignity of the person, and will help us face the crises of our times."
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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.
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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:
33rd anniversary of the death of P. Edward Ennis (73) d. 1992 at London, England.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
St. Mary Anne de Parades (1618-45) the lily of Quito, Ecuador. Her feast is in the Jesuit martyrology. She was directed by Jesuits.
St. Mary Anne de Parades (1618-45) the lily of Quito, Ecuador. Her feast is in the Jesuit martyrology. She was directed by Jesuits.
Saint Peter Canisius, Priest and Doctor of the Church (Memorial)
Peter Canisius (1521-1597) was born in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1543, the first Dutchman to do so. In 1547 he served as theological consultant at the Council of Trent. In 1548 he was assigned to the first Jesuit school in Messina. In 1549 he was sent to teach at the University of Ingolstadt, Germany. In 1552, he was transferred to Vienna, where he did pastoral ministries and began writing his famous Catechism. In 1556, he was appointed Provincial Superior of the newly created Upper German Province. Canisius was one of the giants of the young Society of Jesus. He is honoured as a Doctor of the Church for his heroic defense of Catholicism through teaching, preaching and writing.
1548
Peter Canisius was sent to Messina to teach rhetoric at the newly opened first college of the Society explicitly for lay students.
1593
Jerome Lalemant is born. The successor to Jean de Brebeuf, he wrote much in the Jesuit Relations.
1859
At Florence, acting under pressure from the Freemasons, the Society of Jesus is banished.
1880
At Amiens, on occasion of the visit of Jules Ferry, shouts were raised under the Jesuit College windows: "Les Jesuites a la guillotine."
1990
Vincent McCorry dies. He gave retreats and for many years wrote the Word column for America magazine.
