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May 2023

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For ecclesial movements and groups (Watch video(Read Reflection)
"Let us pray that ecclesial movements and groups may daily rediscover their evangelizing mission, and that they place their own charisms at the service of the world’s needs."

19 Friday
  whiteFriday in the Sixth Week of Easter
Mass of the day. Preface of Easter I - V "...in this time."
Cycle I [295] Acts 18:9-18; Ps 47:2-3, 4-5, 6-7; John 16:20-23.
Hours of the day.
Anniversary:74th anniversary of the death of P. James Robinson (86) d. 1949 at Petworth, W. Sussex, England. Read Obituary
Anniversary:61st anniversary of the death of P. Victor Figueiredo (88) d. 1962 at Tananarive, Madagascar. Read Obituary
Anniversary:25th anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Friedrich (92) d. 1998 at Harare, Zimbabwe. Read Obituary
Anniversary:3rd anniversary of the death of P. Sydney D'Souza (AOR) (85) d. 2020 at Nairobi, Kenya. Read Obituary

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1542St. Francis Xavier reached Goa, India, after more than a year’s journey.
1547Pope Paul IV accedes to the request that the Society of Jesus no longer subjects women to its obedience. "Fiat ut petitur."
1596At Perigueux the death of Father Francis de Bordes. Threatened with dismissal in his noviceship because of delicate health, he cast himself before the Rector and said he would remain kneeling at the door-step till he was taken back again.
1651The martyrdom at Tyburn, England, of Blessed Peter Wright, a former soldier who returned to his homeland as a Jesuit and was hanged.
1652The birth of Paul Hoste, S.J. a mathematician and expert on the construction of ships and history of naval warfare.
1769At Rome the election of Pope Clement XIV, Cardinal Lorenzo Ganganelli, who is said to have owed to the Jesuits his elevation to the Cardinalate. He would later suppress the Society of Jesus.
1988Seavey Joyce, S.J. dies one-time president of Boston College.
1991Zoltan Alseghy, S.J. dies Moral theologian of the Alseghy-Flick team.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2023

Dominical Letter  A
Golden Number  10
Epact  viii
Solar Cycle 16
Letter of the Martyrology h
Roman Year of Indiction 1
Julian Period Year 6736
Years since the confirmation of the Society 483
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  467
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 2
Sunday Readings  Cycle  A
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 9 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    16 April