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| white | Thursday in the Octave of Easter |
| | Mass of the Octave. Gloria, sequence optional, Preface of Easter I ("on this day"); double alleluia at dismissal. |
| | [264] Acts 3:11-26; Ps 8:2ab+5, 6-7, 8-9; Luke 24:35-48. |
| Hours of the day; Te Deum, double alleluia at dismissal.
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On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 1506 | St. Francis Xavier is born at the family castle in Navarre. Six days later Peter Faber is born. |
| 1994 | Three Jesuit priests killed, with 14 others at Centre Christus in Rwanda: Chrysologus Mahame (the first Rwandan Jesuit, age 67), Patrick Gahizi (age 48) , and Innocent Rutagambwa (age 46). Beginnings of genocide in Rwanda, one half million killed in the next seven months. |
| 2014 | In Homs, Syria, Frans Van der Lugt is assassinated. |
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