Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For families (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "We pray for Christian families around the world; may they embody and experience unconditional love and advance in holiness in their daily lives."
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Pentecost Sunday
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 C
[63] Acts 2:1-11; Ps 104:1+24, 29b-30, 31+34; Rom 8:8-17 (Year C) or 1 Cor 12:3b-7, 12-13; Jn 14:15-16, 23b-26 (Year C) 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 10.
Week 2 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:
115th anniversary of the death of P. John Vollers (46) d. 1907 at Canaries, Spain.
Anniversary:
38th anniversary of the death of P. Michael Moloney (71) d. 1984 at Dublin, Ireland.
Birthday:
29th birthday of S. BenĂcio Arlindo CHICOMO (born this day in 1993).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1564
At Lima died Francis Lopez, who had resigned the high office of Visitor General of the Kingdom of Peru to become a lay Brother in the Society.
1564
Pius IV, hearing that his nephew St. Charles Borromeo felt drawn to the Society, forbad Lainez and Ribadenairs to enter the Apostolic Palace.
1960
The Vatican Secretariat for Christian Unity is established. Cardinal Bea is the first President, from 1960 to his death in 1968.
1986
John Mahoney is named professor of moral theology in King’s College, the University of London, the first Catholic priest to hold that chair.
