| 31 Saturday | |
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| white | The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary | Feast |
| Mass of the feast; Gloria, preface of the feast. |
| Cycle I | [572] Zeph 3:14-18a or Rom 12:9-16; Isa 12:2-3, 4bcd, 5-6; Luke 1:39-56. |
| | Hours of the feast; Te Deum. |
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In the evening: |
| white | Vigil of Ascension | Solemnity |
| Mass of the Vigil; gloria, creed, Preface of the Ascension I or II, special Communicantes in Eucharistic Prayer I. |
| | [61] Acts 7:55-60; Ps 97:1-2, 6-7, 9; Rev 22:12-14, 16-17, 20; John 17:20-26. |
| For pastoral reasons, the texts of the day Mass may also be used. |
| Evening Prayer I of the Ascension. |
| Anniversary: | 31st anniversary of the death of P. Xolile Keteyi (41) d. 1994 at Pietermaritzburg, RSA.  |
| Anniversary: | 19th anniversary of the death of P. Claudio Rossi (61) d. 2006 at Palestrina, Italy. |
| Birthday: | 45th birthday of P. Nicholas HAMAKALU (born this day in 1980). |
| Birthday: | 73rd birthday of P. Stephen BUCKLAND (born this day in 1952). |
| SJ NOTE: | Monthly Mass for the needs of the Church and the Society should be offered on May 31. | |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 1653 | Publication of the bull of Pope Innocent X declaring that Five Heretical Propositions were really contained in Jansenius' Augustinus. The Jansenists retaliated by violent calumnies against the Society. |
| 1823 | Twelve Belgian Jesuits, including Fr. Van Quickenborne, superior, Peter De Smet, and Peter Verhaegen arrive in the St. Louis area by flatboat down the Ohio River and then a 120 mile walk across Illinois. They celebrate the feast of Corpus Christ the next day at the Cathedral. The mission begins. |
| 1900 | The new novitiate of the Buffalo Mission, St. Stanislaus in South Brooklyn, Ohio, near Cleveland, is blessed. |
| 1992 | The canonization of Claude de la Colombiere by Pope John Paul II, 63 years after he was beatified by Pius XI. |
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