Mass of the day.
Preface of Ascension or of Easter "...in this time."
Cycle I
[299] Acts 20:28-38;Ps 68:29-30, 33-35a, 35bc-36ab; John 17:11b-19.
Hours of the day.
Anniversary:
116th anniversary of the death of P. Kenelm Digby-Beste (39) d. 1915 at Bulawayo, BSA Co..
Anniversary:
41st anniversary of the death of P. Maximilian Prokoph (80) d. 1990 at Johannesburg, RSA.
Anniversary:
9th anniversary of the death of P. Andrews Thekkekara (MDU) (90) d. 2022 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
Birthday:
59th birthday of P. Kapyunga Boyd Christopher NYIRENDA (born this day in 1972).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1537
Francis Borgia converted from the vanities of the world by the sight of Empress Isabella’s corpse.
1547
Letter of St. Ignatius on zeal and religious perfection.
1600
Father Matthew Ricci, undismayed by the failure of his first visit to Peking, set out again from Nanking with many rich presents for the Emperor, of which he was robbed on the way.
1634
Ven. Father Thomas Holland, martyr, took the vows of a Spiritual Coadjutor. He is said to have heroically swallowed a spider that fell into the chalice during Mass. He is now a saint.
1648
At Murcia in Spain died Fr. Andre Salvatierra, famous mission in California. On several occasions he won a hearing for the Gospel by first playing on the lute for the native peoples.
1881
Cardinal Bea, is born.
1962
The death of Bernard Hubbard, S.J., in Santa Clara, California. He is the author of the book Mush, You Malemutes! and articles in the Saturday Evening Post on the Alaska mission. "The Glacier Priest" – for climbing the Austrian Alps!
1981
The death of Mary Lou Williams, jazz pianist. Convert to Catholicism, she wrote jazz Masses. Jesuits assisted her and one acted as her musical agent.
1987
Hugh Costigan, S.J. dies. Missionary to Micronesia.
