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May 2095

11 Wednesday
  whiteWednesday in the Third Week of Easter
Mass of the day. Preface of Easter I - V "...in this time."
Cycle I [275] Acts 8:1b-8; Ps 66:1-3a, 4-5, 6-7a; John 6:35-40.
Hours of the day.
Anniversary:110th anniversary of the death of P. Julius Pogany (SRI) (75) d. 1985 at Galle, Sri Lanka. Read Obituary
Birthday:119th birthday of P. Emmanuel Kabamba NSHIMBI (born this day in 1976).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1542Xavier reaches Goa, after more than one year's journey. FB
1544In a letter to St. Ignatius, the Carthusians speak highly in praise of the Society and make it a perpetual sharer in all their prayers and good works.
1610M. Ricci dies Beijing. A mathematician and missionary, he was the most eminent missionary to China.
1610The death in Peking (Beijing) of Mateo Ricci, the Italian Jesuit mathematician and founder of the modern missions in China, the ï¬rst to introduce the Christian faith there.
1647By decrees 24 and 27 of the Seventh General Congregation, the wearing of the biretta was forbidden to lay-Brothers.
1716At Naples, the death of St. Francesco de Jeronimo (St. Francis Jerome), the apostle of that city and kingdom.
1824St. Regis Seminary is opened in Florissant, Mo. by Fr. Van Quickenborne. It is the first RC school in USA for the higher education of Indians.
1982Horace McKenna, S.J. dies . Maryland. Friend of the poor. He explained and lived that the two symbols of the priest are the towel (footwashing)and the stole. He also said that the main job of the Superior is to "spray praise" around the community.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2095

Dominical Letter  b
Golden Number  6
Epact  xxiv
Solar Cycle 4
Letter of the Martyrology E
Roman Year of Indiction 13
Julian Period Year 6808
Years since the confirmation of the Society 555
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  539
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 74
Sunday Readings  Cycle  A
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 24 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    24 April