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May 2021

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: The world of finance (Watch video(Read Reflection)
"Let us pray that those in charge of finance will work with governments to regulate the financial sphere and protect citizens from its dangers."

13 Thursday
  whiteThursday in the Sixth Week of Easter
Mass of the day. Preface of Easter I - V "...in this time."
Cycle I [294] Acts 18:1-8; Ps 98:1, 2-3ab, 3cd-4; John 16:16-20.
Hours of the day.
  white Our Lady of FatimaOptional
 (Common of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Readings from the Common of Saints: [563A] Isa 61:9-11 (#707.9); Ps 45:11-12, 14-15, 16-17 (#709.3); Luke 11:27-28.)
Anniversary:83rd anniversary of the death of P. Domingos da Piedade Luís Fernandes (81) d. 1938 at Kotagiri, India. Read Obituary
Anniversary:77th anniversary of the death of P. Thomas Gardner (71) d. 1944 at Salisbury, Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:31st anniversary of the death of P. Manuel Lopes (86) d. 1990 at Porto, Portugal. Read Obituary

On this day in our Jesuit history...

The Traditional feast of St. Robert Bellarmine. RM
1572The election of Gregory XIII to succeed St. Pius V. To him the Society owes the foundation of the Roman and German Colleges.
1638In London died Father Richard Blount, for mor than twenty years Superior, Vice-Provincial, and Provincial of the English Mission and Province.
1704Louis Bourdaloue, S.J. dies, age 72 in Paris. He is the most famous of all Jesuit preachers. It was said that places were reserved 48 hours before he spoke.
1758At Madrid, Pombal’s slanderous pamphlets against the Society were burnt in the public square.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2021

Dominical Letter  c
Golden Number  8
Epact  xvi
Solar Cycle 14
Letter of the Martyrology r
Roman Year of Indiction 14
Julian Period Year 6734
Years since the confirmation of the Society 481
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  465
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 0
Sunday Readings  Cycle  B
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 4 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    2 May