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.
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Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Tychicus, disciple of Paul (cf. Col. 4:7-8) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:
152nd anniversary of the death of F. Louis de Vylder (42) d. 1883 at Lusu Rapids, Zambia.
Anniversary:
121st anniversary of the death of P. Alexandre Furtado Mendonça (56) d. 1914 at Red Sea.
Anniversary:
37th anniversary of the death of E. Paul Lungu (51) d. 1998 at Magoye, Zambia.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1568
St. Pius V, by his Brief "Innumerabile fructus," confirms the Consitutions of Paul II and Julius III regarding the government of colleges, the appointment of rectors by the General, etc.
1568
St. Pius V, by his Brief "Innumerabiles fructus," conï¬rms the Constitutions of Paul II and Julius III regarding the government of colleges, the appointment of rectors by the General, etc.
1578
Disturbances at Utrecht caused by Lutherans: the Fathers were driven from their College.
1599
At Nankin, Father Matthew Ricci secured a fixed abode, purchasing a house reported to be haunted.
1672
At Rome the solemn canonization of St. Francis Borgia by Clement X. 1894. The Sodality of St. Peter Claver for African Missions is approved and blessed by Leo XIII. It was founded by Maria Teresa Ledochowska., sister of Fr. General.
1903
President Theodore Roosevelt visits St. Louis University.
1933
Thomas Ewing Sherman, S.J. dies in New Orleans. He was the son of General Sherman, an orator on the mission band. He suffered a breakdown, and wanted to leave the Society, but was refused because of his ill health. Before his death he renewed his vows in the Society.
1936
Fr. Adolfo Nicolas, S.J. born, Spain.
1998
The Bishop of Monze, Paul Lungu, S.J., 51, died in a road accident. For his funeral, all ten Zambian Bishops and the Nuncio were present at the ceremony which lasted for four hours and which was attended by an estimated gathering of 10,000 people. The ritual dances and mournful singing performed during the Mass are the traditional honors given to a chief among the Tonga people.
