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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."

17 Monday
  whiteMonday in the Seventh Week of Easter
Mass of the day. Preface of Ascension or of Easter "...in this time."
Cycle I [297] Acts 19:1-8; Ps 68:2-3ab, 4-5acd, 6-7ab; John 16:29-33.
Hours of the day.
Anniversary:82nd anniversary of the death of P. Bertram Callan (60) d. 1939 at Makumbi, S. Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:76th anniversary of the death of F. Francis Pacek (77) d. 1945 at Chingombe, N. Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:40th anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Conway (56) d. 1981 at Ennis, Ireland. Read Obituary
Birthday:47th birthday of P. Clyde MUROPA (born this day in 1974).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1572Pope Gregory XIII exempted the Society from choir and approved simple vows after two years of novitiate and ordination before solemn profession. In these matters he reversed a decree of St. Pius V.
1572Pope Gregory XIII exempted the Society from Choir, approved the simple vows after two years' noviceship, and allowed Ours to be ordained before Profession: in all these matters reversing a decree of St. Pius V.
1824Brief of Leo XIII returns the Roman College to the Society of Jesus, Cum multa in Urbe.
1915Fr. General Ledochowski leaves Rome, goes to Switzerland to better govern and communicate with the Society in WW I.
1966Gaston Salet, S.J. dies teacher, preacher.
1968Catonsville Nine: an anti-Vietnam protest, with Jesuits involved.

 


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