| 31 Sunday | |
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| white | The Most Holy Trinity
Texts found in Missal and Lit. of the Hours after propers for Ordinary Time. | Solemnity |
| Yr C | [166] Prov 8:22-31; Ps 8:4-5, 6-7, 8-9; Rom 5:1-5; John 16:12-15. |
| Hours of the Solemnity. Te Deum. At Evening Prayer II, double alleluia at dismissal | |
| Anniversary: | 43rd anniversary of the death of P. Xolile Keteyi (41) d. 1994 at Pietermaritzburg, RSA.  |
| Anniversary: | 31st anniversary of the death of P. Claudio Rossi (61) d. 2006 at Palestrina, Italy. |
| Birthday: | 57th birthday of P. Nicholas HAMAKALU (born this day in 1980). |
| Birthday: | 85th 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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