Second Sunday of Easter (Sunday of Divine Mercy) [Octave Day of Easter]. (Formerly known as Dominica in Albis (Sunday in White), Quasimodo Sunday or Low Sunday.)
Mass of the Sunday, Gloria, Creed, Preface of Easter I ("on this Easter day"); Easter Communicantes and Hanc igitur; double alleluia at dismissal.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Evening Prayer II of the Sunday. The Easter Octave ends. Week 2 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:
173rd anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Wright (46) d. 1897 at Blackpool, England.
Anniversary:
70th anniversary of the death of F. Patrick McElduff (77) d. 2000 at Dublin, Ireland.
Anniversary:
66th anniversary of the death of F. Evaristo Mapuranga (53) d. 2004 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
Anniversary:
59th anniversary of the death of P. Francis O'Neill (83) d. 2011 at Dublin, Ireland.
Birthday:
78th birthday of S. Victor C CHIPALABWE (born this day in 1992).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
Feast of Blessed Juliana of Cornelion. She was placed in the Jesuit martyrology at the request of Fr. General Ledochowski. She lived 1193-1258 and helped spread devotion to Corpus Christi, petitioning for a feast to honor it.
1570
Jesuits became the confessors in St. Peter’s Basilica in the transfer to the Society of the "College of Penitentiaries."
1581
St. Edmund Campion published his Decem Rationes.
1669
At Paris, St. Claude de la Colombiere was ordained a priest.
1672
In the Marianne Isle, the Ven. Fr. Diego de San Vitores suffered martyrdom after converting 30,000 persons to the faith. When only 13 years old he heard our Lady tell him three distinct times to enter the Society.
1850
First edition of La Civilta Cattolica appears. The first journal of the restored Society.
1987
Brother Vincent Canas Costa (age 48). After 11 years on the mission in Brazil, he is killed by a blunt wound in the stomach.
