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May 2059

18 Sunday
  redPentecost Sunday
Separate Vigil Mass texts in RM with separate set of readings. An elongated Vigil Liturgy of the Word is one option.
Mass of Pentecost; Gloria, Sequence, Creed, Preface of Pentecost, special Communicantes in Eucharistic Prayer I, Double alleluia at the dismissal.
Yr A [63] Acts 2:1-11; Ps 104:1+24, 29b-30, 31+34; 1 Cor 12:3b-7, 12-13; John 20:19-23.
Hours of the Solemnity. Te Deum. At Evening Prayer II, double alleluia at dismissal
After Evening Prayer, the Paschal Candle is extinguished, and moved to the Baptistery, where it is kept in a place of honor so that the candles of the newly baptised may be lit from it.
The weeks of the year resume with Week 7.
Week 3 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:106th anniversary of the death of P. Eugénio Witz (79) d. 1953 at Soutelo, Braga, Portugal. Read Obituary
Anniversary:45th anniversary of the death of F. Alphonse McAndrew (CDA) (82) d. 2014 at Pickering, ON, Canada. Read Obituary
Birthday:68th birthday of NS. Dennis Simbarashe ALUBEMBE (born this day in 1991).
Birthday:77th 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 2059

Dominical Letter  e
Golden Number  8
Epact  xvi
Solar Cycle 24
Letter of the Martyrology r
Roman Year of Indiction 7
Julian Period Year 6772
Years since the confirmation of the Society 519
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  503
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 38
Sunday Readings  Cycle  A
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 30 March
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    4 May