Separate Vigil Mass texts in RM with separate set of readings. An elongated Vigil Liturgy of the Word is one option.
Mass of Pentecost; Gloria, Sequence, Creed, Preface of Pentecost, special Communicantes in Eucharistic Prayer I, Double alleluia at the dismissal.
Yr C
[63] Acts 2:1-11; Ps 104:1+24, 29b-30, 31+34; Rom 8:8-17 (Year C) or 1 Cor 12:3b-7, 12-13; Jn 14:15-16, 23b-26 (Year C) or Jn 20:19-23.
Hours of the Solemnity. Te Deum. At Evening Prayer II, double alleluia at dismissal
After Evening Prayer, the Paschal Candle is extinguished, and moved to the Baptistery, where it is kept in a place of honor so that the candles of the newly baptised may be lit from it.
The weeks of the year resume with Week 10.
Week 2 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:
135th anniversary of the death of F. Kilian Heim (47) d. 1941 at Triashill, Chishawasha, S Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
120th anniversary of the death of P. John Withnell (82) d. 1956 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
113th anniversary of the death of F. Michael O'Toole (64) d. 1963 at Harlaxton, Lincs, England.
Anniversary:
104th anniversary of the death of F. Joseph Duda (76) d. 1972 at Lusaka, Zambia.
Birthday:
92nd birthday of P. Clemence MUTIMUTEMA (born this day in 1984).
Birthday:
76th birthday of NS. Modesto NUMERI BISSUASSE (born this day in 2000).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1556
Peter Canisius is appointed Provincial of Upper Germany, as the Province is constituted. A few days earlier, the province of Lower Germany was erected.
1569
Three ships, with 60 Jesuits aboard, leave Portugal for Brazil. But not one Jesuit will reach Brazil.
1661
The 11th General Congregation elects Oliva as perpetual Vicar General with right of succession and "sole right" of General, due to the state of health of Fr. General Nickel, aged 80 years.
1758
The Cardinal Patriarch of Lisbon, who loved the Society, was forced by Pombal to suspend all the Jesuits in his patriarchate. He died of grief within a month.
1886
Father Camillus Mazzella was promoted to the Cardinalate by Leo XIII. He had been the first Dean of Woodstock College. He was Professor of theology and would chair the commission that declared Anglican orders invalid, a report accepted by Leo XIII.
1952
The formal dedication of Gonzaga Retreat House for youth in Monroe, NY. It had been started sometime earlier.
1962
Karl Rahner is silenced in a manner, by Father General: preliminary censorship. This would last for about one year.
2000
George Ganss, S.J. dies, age 94. Director, founder of the Institute of Jesuit Sources, and translated the Constitutions.
