Second Sunday of Easter (Sunday of Divine Mercy) [Octave Day of Easter]. (Formerly known as Dominica in Albis (Sunday in White), Quasimodo Sunday or Low Sunday.)
Mass of the Sunday, Gloria, Creed, Preface of Easter I ("on this Easter day"); Easter Communicantes and Hanc igitur; double alleluia at dismissal.
Yr B
[44] Acts 4:32-35; Ps 118:2-4, 13-15, 22-24; 1 John 5:1-6; John 20:19-31.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Evening Prayer II of the Sunday. The Easter Octave ends. Week 2 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:
70th anniversary of the death of P. Francis Naime (69) d. 1957 at Blackpool, England.
Anniversary:
18th anniversary of the death of P. Manuel Joaquim Pereira (89) d. 2009 at Esposende, Portugal.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1767
The Society was expelled from all its houses in Spain and subjected to great cruelty.
1871
There is plundering of the Jesuit house at rue de Sevres in Paris by the Communards.
1873
In Mexico a law to expel the Society was proposed in Parliament.
