Mass of the day.
Preface of Ascension or of Easter "...in this time."
Cycle II
[299] Acts 20:28-38;Ps 68:29-30, 33-35a, 35bc-36ab; John 17:11b-19.
Hours of the day.
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St Paul VI, pope
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(Common of Pastors: For a Pope Readings from the Common of Saints: [571A] 1 Cor 9:16-19, 22-23 (#722.4); Ps 96:1-2a, 2b-3, 7-8a, 10 (#721.5); Matt 16:13-19 (#724.2).)
Archdioceses of Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg, South Africa [SACBC]
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Bl Joseph Gerard, Priest
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Common of Pastors
Anniversary:
159th anniversary of the death of F. Peter Paravicini (64) d. 1899 at Itu, Brazil.
Anniversary:
49th anniversary of the death of P. Gerald McCabe (76) d. 2009 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
76th birthday of P. Shepherd MUHAMBA (born this day in 1982).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
St. Ursula Ledochowska, Foundress of missionary sisters, sister of Jesuit General and Blessed Teresa Ledochowska. Congregation of the Ursulines of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus.
1566
Father Pedro Martinez and two companions set sail for Florida, a region occupied at the time by barbarous tribes. (FB)
1760
The bankrupt creditors of Fr. Antoine Lavalette, superior of the Martinique mission, press the Society to repay his unauthorized trading debts, an occasion helping to lead to the banning of the Society in France.
1815
The restoration of the Society in Spain was proclaimed by royal decree.
1991
John Paul II announces that Paulo Dezza, S.J. is to become a Cardinal, as well as Jan Korec, in Slovakia. There are now seven Jesuit Cardinals, the largest number ever.
