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May 2025

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For working conditions (Read Reflection)
"Let us pray that through work, each person might find fulfilment, families might be sustained in dignity, and that society might be humanized."

18 Sunday
  whiteFifth Sunday of Easter
Mass of the day, Gloria, Creed, Preface of Easter I - V.
Yr C [54] Acts 14:21-27; Ps 145:8-9, 10-11, 12-13; Rev 21:1-5a; John 13:31-33a, 34-35.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum.
Week 1 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:72nd anniversary of the death of P. Eugénio Witz (79) d. 1953 at Soutelo, Braga, Portugal. Read Obituary
Anniversary:11th anniversary of the death of F. Alphonse McAndrew (CDA) (82) d. 2014 at Pickering, ON, Canada. Read Obituary
Birthday:34th birthday of NS. Dennis Simbarashe ALUBEMBE (born this day in 1991).
Birthday:43rd birthday of P. Nelson NYAMAYARO (born this day in 1982).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1534Peter Faber is ordained a priest, the first of the companions to become a priest. He says his first Mass on July 22.
1675Pere Jacques Marquette dies, age 37, at Ludington, Michigan. Explorer of the Mississippi.
1675The death in Canada, at age 37, of James Marquette, Jesuit missionary who gained lasting reknown for exploring the Mississippi River.
1711Ruggero Giuiseppi Boscovich, S.J. is born. Astronomer and Mathematician.
1975Mass for the closing of Woodstock College, New York City.
1985Thomas Moore, S.J. dies. He was Editor of the Sacred Heart Messenger and director of the Apostleship of Prayer.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2025

Dominical Letter  e
Golden Number  12
Epact  *
Solar Cycle 18
Letter of the Martyrology P
Roman Year of Indiction 3
Julian Period Year 6738
Years since the confirmation of the Society 485
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  469
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 4
Sunday Readings  Cycle  C
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 20 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    20 April