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May 2027

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: That there be job opportunities for everyone. (Watch video) (Read Reflection)
"Let us pray that technological development might open dignified work opportunities, and that intergenerational collaboration might bring a future in which every person can put their talents at the service of the common good."

Waxing Gibbous

18 Tuesday

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Tuesday of the seventh week.

Mass of the day.

Cycle I

[342] Sir 2:1-11; Ps 37:3-4, 18-19, 27-28, 39-40; Mark 9:30-37.

Hours of the day.

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St John I, pope and martyr
Common of Martyrs, or Common of Pastors: For a Pope
Readings from the Common of Saints: [565] Rev 3:14b, 20-22 (#738.2); Ps 23:1-3a, 4, 5, 6 (#721.2); Luke 22:24-30 (#724.9).

Optional

Anniversary:

74^th anniversary of the death of P. EugĂ©nio Witz (79) d. 1953 at Soutelo, Braga, Portugal.

Anniversary:

13^th anniversary of the death of F. Alphonse McAndrew (CDA) (82) d. 2014 at Pickering, ON, Canada.

Birthday:

36^th birthday of S. Dennis Simbarashe ALUBEMBE (born this day in 1991).

Birthday:

45^th birthday of P. Nelson NYAMAYARO (born this day in 1982).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1534

Peter Faber is ordained a priest, the first of the companions to become a priest. He says his first Mass on July 22.

1675

Pere Jacques Marquette dies, age 37, at Ludington, Michigan. Explorer of the Mississippi.

1675

The death in Canada, at age 37, of James Marquette, Jesuit missionary who gained lasting reknown for exploring the Mississippi River.

1711

Ruggero Giuiseppi Boscovich, S.J. is born. Astronomer and Mathematician.

1975

Mass for the closing of Woodstock College, New York City.

1985

Thomas Moore, S.J. dies. He was Editor of the Sacred Heart Messenger and director of the Apostleship of Prayer.

VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2027

Dominical Letter	c
Golden Number	14
Epact	xxii
Solar Cycle	20
Letter of the Martyrology	C
Roman Year of Indiction	5
Julian Period	Year 6740
Years since the confirmation of the Society	487
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius	471
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province	6
Sunday Readings	Cycle B
Weekday Readings	Cycle I
Gregorian Easter	28 March
Julian (Orthodox) Easter	2 May