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| red | St Boniface, bishop and martyr | Memorial |
| Mass of the memorial; preface of Easter I - V, or of the saint. | |
| Cycle II | [296] Acts 18:23-28;
Ps 47:2-3, 8-9, 10; John 16:23b-28.
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In the evening: |
| white | Vigil of Ascension | Solemnity |
| Mass of the Vigil; gloria, creed, Preface of the Ascension I or II, special Communicantes in Eucharistic Prayer I. |
| | [59] Acts 1:12-14; Ps 27:1, 4, 7-8; 1 Pet 4:13-16; John 17:1-11a. |
| For pastoral reasons, the texts of the day Mass may also be used. |
| Evening Prayer I of the Ascension. |
| Anniversary: | 131st anniversary of the death of P. John Vollers (46) d. 1907 at Canaries, Spain.  |
| Anniversary: | 54th anniversary of the death of P. Michael Moloney (71) d. 1984 at Dublin, Ireland. |
| Birthday: | 45th birthday of S. BenĂcio Arlindo CHICOMO (born this day in 1993). |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 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. |
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