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May 2024

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the formation of men and women religious, and seminarians (Watch video(Read Reflection)
"Let us pray that men and women religious, and seminarians, grow in their own vocational journey through human, pastoral, spiritual and community formation, that leads them to be credible witnesses of the Gospel."

13 Monday
  whiteMonday in the Seventh Week of Easter
Mass of the day. Preface of Ascension or of Easter "...in this time."
Cycle II [297] Acts 19:1-8; Ps 68:2-3ab, 4-5acd, 6-7ab; John 16:29-33.
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:86th anniversary of the death of P. Domingos da Piedade Luís Fernandes (81) d. 1938 at Kotagiri, India. Read Obituary
Anniversary:80th anniversary of the death of P. Thomas Gardner (71) d. 1944 at Salisbury, Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:34th 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 2024

Dominical Letter  g f
Golden Number  11
Epact  xix
Solar Cycle 17
Letter of the Martyrology u
Roman Year of Indiction 2
Julian Period Year 6737
Years since the confirmation of the Society 484
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  468
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 3
Sunday Readings  Cycle  B
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 31 March
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    5 May