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May 2030

12 Sunday
  whiteFourth Sunday of Easter
67th 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 B [50] Acts 4:8-12; Ps 118:1+8-9, 21-23, 26+21+29; 1 John 3:1-2; John 10:11-18.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum.
Week 4 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:149th anniversary of the death of P. Carlos Wehl (43) d. 1881 at Sofala, Province of Mozambique. Read Obituary
Anniversary:78th anniversary of the death of P. Joseph O'Neil (84) d. 1952 at Salisbury, Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:76th anniversary of the death of P. Gerald Landreth (50) d. 1954 at Salisbury, Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:61st anniversary of the death of P. Eric Edmonstone (62) d. 1969 at Salisbury, Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:50th anniversary of the death of P. Desmond Ford (65) d. 1980 at London, England. Read Obituary
Anniversary:17th anniversary of the death of P. Peter Meiring (91) d. 2013 at Harare, Zimbabwe. Read Obituary
Birthday:31st birthday of S. Maynard MASAUSO (born this day in 1999).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1546Pope Paul III sent Diego Laynez and Alfonso Salmeron as his theologians to the Council of Trent.
1643The death in Canada of Enemundo MassĂ©, the ïŹrst apostle to preach the Good News in that territory subsequently known as New France.
1767De Choiseul writing to d’Aubeterre, urges that the whole Society must be suppressed.
1774Fr. Antonio Coltraro was imprisoned in Castel Sant’ Angelo for almost two years because he was a friend of the confessor of a woman who foretold the death of Pope Clement XIV.
1981A letter of this date, from Secretary of State, Cardinal Casaroli, speaks positively of Teilhard de Chardin in celebration of the centenary of his birth (May l,1881).
1987Harold Small, S.J. dies. From 1960 to 75 he was the American Assistant to Father General.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2030

Dominical Letter  f
Golden Number  17
Epact  25
Solar Cycle 23
Letter of the Martyrology F
Roman Year of Indiction 8
Julian Period Year 6743
Years since the confirmation of the Society 490
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  474
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 9
Sunday Readings  Cycle  B
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 21 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    28 April