Second Sunday of Easter (Sunday of Divine Mercy) [Octave Day of Easter]. (Formerly known as Dominica in Albis (Sunday in White), Quasimodo Sunday or Low Sunday.)
Mass of the Sunday, Gloria, Creed, Preface of Easter I ("on this Easter day"); Easter Communicantes and Hanc igitur; double alleluia at dismissal.
Yr B
[44] Acts 4:32-35; Ps 118:2-4, 13-15, 22-24; 1 John 5:1-6; John 20:19-31.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Evening Prayer II of the Sunday. The Easter Octave ends. Week 2 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:
68th anniversary of the death of P. Alfons Pollet (51) d. 1983 at London, England.
Anniversary:
61st anniversary of the death of P. John Carroll (NEN) (67) d. 1990 at Likuni, Malawi.
Birthday:
79th birthday of P. Rampeoane HLOBO (born this day in 1972).
Birthday:
117th birthday of P. Emmanuel KUJUR (born this day in 1934).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1553
Ignatius sends Jerome Nadal as Commissary into Spain to publish the Constitutions.
1615
William Weston, S.J. dies at Valladolid.
1879
Angelo M. Paresci, S.J. dies at Woodstock. He was the founder and first Rector of Woodstock College.
1905
The amputation of the right arm of Fr. General Luis Martin.
1913
Pope St. Pius X spoke his praises of the Apostleship of Prayer. It counted 25 million members. The periodical The Messenger of the Sacred Heart appears in 42 editions in more than 20 languages.
1934
Aloysius Pieris, S.J. born. Sri Lanka theologian.
1998
John Coventry, S.J. dies Provincial, theologian, writer, of Great Britain.
