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| red | St Boniface, bishop and martyr | Memorial |
| Mass of the memorial; preface of Ascension I - II or Easter I - V or of the saint. | |
| Cycle II | [302] Acts 28:16-20, 30-31;
Ps 11:4, 5+7; John 21:20-25.
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In the evening: |
| red | Vigil of Pentecost | Solemnity |
| Mass of the Vigil; Gloria, sequence, creed, Preface of Pentecost, special Communicantes in Eucharistic Prayer I. Double alleluia at the dismissal |
| | [62] Gen 11:1-9 or Exod 19:3-8a, 16-20b or Ezek 37:1-14 or Joel 3:1-5; Ps 104:1-2, 24+35, 27-28, 29b-30; John 7:37-39. |
| For pastoral reasons, the texts of the day Mass may also be used. |
| Anniversary: | 153rd anniversary of the death of P. John Vollers (46) d. 1907 at Canaries, Spain.  |
| Anniversary: | 76th anniversary of the death of P. Michael Moloney (71) d. 1984 at Dublin, Ireland. |
| Birthday: | 67th 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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