| 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 B | [165] Deut 4:32-34, 39-40; Ps 33:4-5, 6+9, 18-19, 20+22; Rom 8:14-17; Matt 28:16-20. |
| Hours of the Solemnity. Te Deum. At Evening Prayer II, double alleluia at dismissal | |
| Anniversary: | 54th anniversary of the death of P. Xolile Keteyi (41) d. 1994 at Pietermaritzburg, RSA.  |
| Anniversary: | 42nd anniversary of the death of P. Claudio Rossi (61) d. 2006 at Palestrina, Italy. |
| Birthday: | 68th birthday of P. Nicholas HAMAKALU (born this day in 1980). |
| Birthday: | 96th birthday of P. Stephen BUCKLAND (born this day in 1952). |
| Jubilee: | Silver Jubilee of NS. Marcelino Maxwell Tinashe NYASULU who celebrates 25 years in the Society today. |
| Jubilee: | Silver Jubilee of NS. Patrick KAPILI who celebrates 25 years in the Society today. |
| Jubilee: | Silver Jubilee of NS. Modesto NUMERI BISSUASSE who celebrates 25 years in the Society today. |
| 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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