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.
Anniversary:
67th anniversary of the death of P. Edward Hancko (74) d. 1995 at Presov, Slovakia.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1534
Pierre Favre is ordained a deacon in Paris.
1555
The death of Pope Marcellus II, greatly admired by St. Ignatius. Whenever he wished to turn a conversation to some other subject, he would say, "Let us talk about good Pope Marcellus."
1595
Abraham George, S.J. dies, the first of eight Jesuit martyrs in Ethiopia. l632. At Ingolstadt, John, Count de Tilly, the great Catholic hero, assisted by his Jesuit confessor, breathed his last. He had received his education from the Society.
1595
The death of Abraham George, the ï¬rst of eight Jesuit martyrs in Ethiopia.
1984
Aime Duval, S.J. dies. Singer and recovering alcoholic.
1985
Philip J. Donnelly, S.J. dies He taught at Weston from l939 to 1979, (except for two years away) as professor of Dogmatic Theology.
