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:
99th anniversary of the death of P. Xolile Keteyi (41) d. 1994 at Pietermaritzburg, RSA.
Anniversary:
87th anniversary of the death of P. Claudio Rossi (61) d. 2006 at Palestrina, Italy.
Birthday:
113th birthday of P. Nicholas HAMAKALU (born this day in 1980).
Birthday:
141st birthday of P. Stephen BUCKLAND (born this day in 1952).
Jubilee:
Platinum Jubilee of NS. Patrick KAPILI who celebrates 70 years in the Society today.
Jubilee:
Platinum Jubilee of NS. Modesto NUMERI BISSUASSE who celebrates 70 years in the Society today.
Jubilee:
Platinum Jubilee of NS. Marcelino Maxwell Tinashe NYASULU who celebrates 70 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...
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.
