4 Sunday
whiteFifth Sunday of Easter Mass of the day, Gloria , Creed, Preface of Easter I - V. Yr C [54] Acts 14:21-27; Ps 145:8-9, 10-11, 12-13; Rev 21:1-5a; John 13:31-33a, 34-35.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 1 of the Psalter.
Anniversary: 125th anniversary of the death of F. Anthony Puff (78) d. 1939 at Salisbury, Rhodesia. Anniversary: 111th anniversary of the death of P. Richard Corish (65) d. 1953 at Leeds, England. Anniversary: 74th anniversary of the death of P. John Chula (58) d. 1990 at Lusaka, Zambia. Anniversary: 59th anniversary of the death of P. Norman MacDonald (79) d. 2005 at Lusaka, Zambia. Anniversary: 58th anniversary of the death of P. George Orr (87) d. 2006 at Pontypool, Cardiff, Wales. Anniversary: 52nd anniversary of the death of P. Patrick Kelly (HIB) (92) d. 2012 at Dublin, Ireland. Anniversary: 50th anniversary of the death of P. José Belarmino de Araújo (72) d. 2014 at Lisbon, Portugal.
On this day in our Jesuit history... Saint JosĂ© MarĂa Rubio, Priest (Optional Memorial)JosĂ© MarĂa Rubio (1864-1929) was born in Dalias, Spain. He joined the Society as a diocesan priest in 1906, at the age of forty-two. In 1911, he was appointed to the Professed House in Madrid, where he remained for the rest of his life. Rubio was fully engaged in preaching, spiritual direction and hearing confessions. He chose to work primarily among the poor. He built up teams of Catholic laity, founded on a strong Eucharistic spirituality, who collaborated in his numerous initiatives in the city’s slums and suburbs. He is acclaimed as the “Apostle of Madrid” and “Father of the Poor”. 1650 The archbishop of Sens in France, a friend of the Jansenists, ordered prayers in his diocese for the conversion of the Jesuits. 1881 The Society was expelled from the Republic of Nicaragua. 1902 Carlos Sommervogel, S.J. dies Historian of the Society of Jesus, bibliographer. 1938 Franco invites the Jesuits to return to Spain. They had been banned in 1932. 1971 The announcement of the opening of the Center of Concern in Washington, DC. 2003 St. Joseph Mary Rubio, S.J. Parish priest in Madrid. Optional Memorial. He died on May 2, 1929. On this day, in 2003 he was canonized.