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.
[RM]
Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. James, apostle and patron of the diocese (cf. Acts 1:13-14a) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:
74th anniversary of the death of F. Francis Ãœberman (94) d. 1991 at Stara Wies, Poland.
Anniversary:
41st anniversary of the death of P. Henry Tafadzwa Masakare (SAP) (41) d. 2024 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
Birthday:
79th birthday of F. Arnold MURWIRA (born this day in 1986).
Birthday:
73rd birthday of S. Innocent G. KALULU (born this day in 1992).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1560
The first band of Jesuit missionaries head to Angola.
1606
The martyrdom of Henry Garnet, SJ, who was falsely charged with complicity in the Gunpowder Plot. At St. Paul's Churchyard, London.
1611
At Nanking, the opening of the first church, a Jesuit one, in that city. 1764. The last of the French Canadian Jesuit martyrs, Fr. Simon Gounon, drowns taking communion to the sick.
1900
Hugo Rahner, S.J. is born.
1945
Innsbruck is taken over by the American troops. Theology at the Canisianum resumes a few months later.
1978
The death of Leo C. Brown, labor arbitrator who from 1942 to his death served as mediator for hundreds of worker-management disputes.
1987
Rupert Mayer, S.J. is beatified in Munich. Apostle of Munich.
1994
Vincent Potter dies. Philosopher, professor at Fordham, expert on C.S. Peirce.
