Mass of the day.
Preface of Ascension or of Easter "...in this time."
Cycle I
[298] Acts 20:17-27;Ps 68:10-11, 20-21; John 17:1-11a.
Hours of the day.
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St Augustine of Canterbury, bishop
Optional
(Common of Pastors: For Missionaries Readings from the Common of Saints: [571] 1 Thess 2:2b-8 (#722.10); Ps 96:1-2a, 2b-3, 7-8a, 10 (#721.5); Matt 9:35-38 (#724.1).)
Anniversary:
137th anniversary of the death of P. Adolph Bontemps (36) d. 1894 at Swartfontein, RSA.
Anniversary:
60th anniversary of the death of P. James Wallace (55) d. 1971 at Inyanga, Republic of Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
49th anniversary of the death of P. Wiliam Butler (70) d. 1982 at Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, England.
Anniversary:
30th anniversary of the death of P. Michael Ross (85) d. 2001 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1547
Pope Paul III acceded to the request that the Society of Jesus not have women as members nor have a parallel women’s order.
1702
Fr. Dominique Bouhours, literary critic and author of lives of St. Ignatius and St. Francis Xavier, died at Paris. The poet John Dryden translated the latter into English after his conversion.
Francis LeBuffe, S.J. dies. Author, Spiritual writer, lawyer, Sodalist, philosopher, anthropologist. From the New York Province, he died on Ascension Thursday.
1971
Bernard Leeming, S.J. dies. Theologian and ecumenist, he attended Xavier High School in New York.
1974
Herbert Musurillo, S.J. dies Classicist, patristic scholar.
