Separate Vigil Mass texts in RM with separate set of readings. An elongated Vigil Liturgy of the Word is one option.
Mass of Pentecost; Gloria, Sequence, Creed, Preface of Pentecost, special Communicantes in Eucharistic Prayer I, Double alleluia at the dismissal.
Yr B
[63] Acts 2:1-11; Ps 104:1+24, 29b-30, 31+34; Gal 5:16-25 (Year B) or 1 Cor 12:3b-7, 12-13; Jn 15:26-27, 16:12-15 (Year B) or Jn 20:19-23.
Hours of the Solemnity. Te Deum. At Evening Prayer II, double alleluia at dismissal
After Evening Prayer, the Paschal Candle is extinguished, and moved to the Baptistery, where it is kept in a place of honor so that the candles of the newly baptised may be lit from it.
The weeks of the year resume with Week 9.
Week 1 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:
118th anniversary of the death of P. Francis Roberts (68) d. 1978 at Wrexham, Wales.
Birthday:
124th birthday of P. Chiedza CHIMHANDA (born this day in 1972).
Birthday:
144th birthday of P. Alojz PODGRAJSEK (born this day in 1952).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1558
Entrance into the Society of Francisco de Toledo - the first of the Society to be raised to the Cardinalate.
1559
At Tusculum, i.e. Frascati, a villa was purchased for the Fathers and Brothers of the Roman College. Aloysius Gonzaga and John Berchmans would go there for summer vacations.
2007
Robert North, S.J. dies, age 91. He edited the Elenchus Bibliographicus for years, Pontifical Biblical Institute and Marquette.
