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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."

14 Friday
  redSt Matthias, apostleFeast
Mass of the feast; Gloria, preface of the feast.
Cycle I [564] Acts 1:15-17, 20-26; Ps 113:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8; John 15:9-17.
Perhaps found under May 13.
 Hours of the feast; Te Deum.
[RM]Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Matthias, apostle (cf. Acts 1:26) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Birthday:23rd birthday of S. Anesu MUSHUMBA (born this day in 1998).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1546Fathers Laynez and Salmeron were sent by Pope Paul III as his theologians to the Council of Trent.
1547Letter of St. Ignatius to the scholastics at Coimbra on Religious Perfection.
1610Henry IV of France was assassinated, and a storm of obloquy broke over the Society in France.
1648Pope Innocent X by a special Brief reproved Bishop Palafox of Angelopolis, Mexico, for suspending the Jesuits. Palafox had at one time professed greater attachment to the Society, but after the Jesuits refused to pay certain contributions or tithes which they deemed unjust, he became a bitter enemy.
1905Jean Danielou, S.J. is born. A Cardinal in his last years.
1952The inauguration in Bogotá, Colombia, of Casa de Ejercicios de Jesús Redentor, for workers and rural farmers.
1978Letter of Pedro Arrupe to the whole Society on Inculturation.
1987Joseph Lynch, S.J. dies Seismologist, Fordham University.

 


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