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May 2081

10 Saturday
  whiteSaturday in the Sixth Week of Easter
Mass of the day. Preface of Easter I - V "...in this time."
Cycle I [296] Acts 18:23-28; Ps 47:2-3, 8-9, 10; John 16:23b-28.
Hours of the day.
  white  St John of Avila, priest and doctorOptional
 (Common of Pastors, or Common of Doctors of the Church
Readings from the Common of Saints: [561A] Acts 13:46-49 (#720.1); Ps 23:1b-3, 4, 5, 6 (#721.2); Matt 5:13-19 -730.1.)

In the evening:
  whiteVigil of AscensionSolemnity
Mass of the Vigil; gloria, creed, Preface of the Ascension I or II, special Communicantes in Eucharistic Prayer I.
 [60] Acts 1:15-17, 20a, 20c-26; Ps 103:1-2, 11-12, 19-20; 1 John 4:11-16; John 17:11b-19.
For pastoral reasons, the texts of the day Mass may also be used.
Evening Prayer I of the Ascension.
[RM]Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Job, sage (cf. Jb. 42:1-2) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:139th anniversary of the death of F. John Krechel (78) d. 1942 at Chishawasha, S. Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Birthday:120th birthday of P. Heribert Ferdinand MÃœLLER (born this day in 1961).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1569St. John of Avila dies. Spiritual Director: "The Master". A special friend of the Society of Jesus and of St. Ignatius - an "honorary Jesuit."
1616In Poland, a disgruntled ex-Jesuit, Jerome Zahorowski, published a notorious attack on the Society of Jesus called the "Monita Secreta Societatis Jesu." The document supposedly revealed the secret instructions directing the machinations of Jesuits. It was for a long time one of the most influential anti-Jesuit tracts ever published.
1657In China died Fr. Stephen LeFevre, called "a second Xavier." 1773. Empress Maria Teresa of Austria changed her friendship for the Society into hatred, because she had been led to believe that a written confession of hers (found and printed by Protestants) had been divulged by the Jesuits.
1848The Austro-Hungarian government decreed the suppression of the Society of Jesus in all its empire.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2081

Dominical Letter  e
Golden Number  11
Epact  xix
Solar Cycle 18
Letter of the Martyrology u
Roman Year of Indiction 14
Julian Period Year 6794
Years since the confirmation of the Society 541
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  525
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 60
Sunday Readings  Cycle  B
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 30 March
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    4 May