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| white | Wednesday in the Octave of Easter |
| | Mass of the Octave. Gloria, sequence optional, Preface of Easter I ("on this day"); double alleluia at dismissal. |
| | [263] Acts 3:1-10; Ps 105:1-2, 3-4, 6-7, 8-9; Luke 24:13-35. |
| Hours of the day; Te Deum, double alleluia at dismissal.
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| | Archdioceses of Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg, South Africa [SACBC] | | white | St Benedict’ Religious | Optional | | Common of Holy Men and Women |
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| Anniversary: | 83rd anniversary of the death of P. Francis Naime (69) d. 1957 at Blackpool, England.  |
| Anniversary: | 31st anniversary of the death of P. Manuel Joaquim Pereira (89) d. 2009 at Esposende, Portugal. |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 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. |
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