81st World Day for Prayers for Priestly and Religious Vocations ('Good Shepherd' Sunday) (est. 1963)
Mass of the day, Gloria, Creed, Preface of Easter I - V.
Yr A
[49] Acts 2:14a, 36-41; Ps 23:1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6; 1 Pet 2:20b-25; John 10:1-10.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 4 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:
124th anniversary of the death of P. Richard Sykes (66) d. 1920 at Dunbrody, RSA.
Anniversary:
85th anniversary of the death of P. Augustine Ganley (59) d. 1959 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
69th anniversary of the death of P. Terence Corrigan (59) d. 1975 at London, England.
Anniversary:
52nd anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Sommer (77) d. 1992 at Clarkston, USA.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1521
Peter Canisius is born in Nijmegen. This is sixteen days before St. Ignatius is wounded.
1586
Fathers Henry Garnet and Robert Southwell left Rome for the English mission.
1853
Jan Roothaan dies. He was the 2lst General of the Society and General for 24 years. His furtherance of the Spiritual Exercises, the foreign missions, and education, greatly influenced the spirit and works of the Society. He is a Servant of God.
1861
President Abraham Lincoln visits Georgetown University to review the 69th New York Regiment which was based there.
1900
Sod is turned, the beginning of building of the novitiate of St. Andrew on Hudson, Poughkeepsie, NY.
