Mass of the day, Gloria, Creed, Preface of Easter I - V. Where Ascension is celebrated on the Seventh Sunday of Easter, today's second reading & gospel may be from Seventh Sunday of Easter if desired.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 2 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:
145th anniversary of the death of F. Augustine Book (39) d. 1895 at Chishawasha, BSA Co..
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1638
At Ypres, in Belgium, the death of Cornelius Jansenius, the founder of Jansenism, and author of the 'Augustinus', at which he worked for 20 years. Speaking of the Jesuits he said: "Perfecto odio oderam illos". (I detest them with a total hatred)
1816
In a letter to Thomas Jefferson, John Adams called Jesuits "a body of men worthy of damnation."
1816
Letter of John Adams to Thomas Jefferson mentioning the Jesuits. "If any congregation of men could merit eternal perdition on earth and in hell, it is the company of Loyola."
1927
At St. Andrew on Hudson, a Junior runs to the Fathers and says that two KKK are burning down Della Strada chapel. The fathers investigate and discover two pious women with white handkerchiefs on their heads visiting the chapel and lighting candles.
1963
Vincent A. McCormick, S.J. dies. He had been the American Assistant.
1989
The death of Daniel Pasupasu. He had twice been provincial of Central Africa. Regarding a term of office for the General, he said simply that "in Africa the chief is chief for life." At CG 33.
1998
Philip Caraman, S.J. dies. He was an author on Jesuit Saints/History.
