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| white | Wednesday in the Octave of Easter |
| | Mass of the Octave. Gloria, sequence optional, Preface of Easter I ("on this day"); double alleluia at dismissal. |
| | [263] Acts 3:1-10; Ps 105:1-2, 3-4, 6-7, 8-9; Luke 24:13-35. |
| Hours of the day; Te Deum, double alleluia at dismissal.
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| [RM] | Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Agabus, prophet in Antioch (cf. Acts 21:10-11) [from the Roman Martyrology]. |
| Anniversary: | 54th anniversary of the death of P. John Berrell (69) d. 1994 at Johannesburg, RSA.  |
| Anniversary: | 48th anniversary of the death of F. Alexio Muzvidzwa (43) d. 2000 at Harare, Zimbabwe. |
| Birthday: | 48th birthday of S. Tomás Modesto BENE (born this day in 2000). |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 1548 | St. Peter Canisius was sent to Messina to teach rhetoric. |
| 1762 | In France, the expulsion of the Fathers from all their colleges and houses by decree of parliament. |
| 1979 | Karl Rahner, S.J. receives honorary degree at Weston School of Theology, Cambridge, and delivers a classic lecture on the three eras or epochs of church. |
| 2007 | Edward Brady, S.J. dies, age 77 in Nairobi, Kenya. Worked with JRS, and with Sudanese Bishops for peace and justice. |
| 2018 | Simon Decloux, SJ dies. Was Rector at Kimwenza, Tertian Instructor, Provincial, General Assistant. |
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