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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."

2 Friday
  whiteSt Athanasius, bishop and doctor of the ChurchMemorial
Mass of the memorial; preface of Easter I - V, or of the saint.
Cycle I [271] Acts 5:34-42; Ps 27:1, 4, 13-14; John 6:1-15.
 Hours of the memorial
Anniversary:57th anniversary of the death of P. John Waligora (78) d. 1968 at Katondwe, Zambia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:50th anniversary of the death of P. Patrick Walsh (64) d. 1975 at Pretoria, RSA. Read Obituary
Anniversary:43rd anniversary of the death of P. Richard Copeland (69) d. 1982 at Melbourne, Australia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:38th anniversary of the death of P. Edward Warner (73) d. 1987 at Wimbledon, London, England. Read Obituary
Anniversary:19th anniversary of the death of P. James Carroll (72) d. 2006 at Dublin, Ireland. Read Obituary
Birthday:51st birthday of P. Elias Bboloka Bubala NCHIMUNYA (born this day in 1974).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1564Pope Pius the V yielded to Fr. General Lainez' request and approved that the Society should have no Cardinal Protector, but be under the Pope's immediate protection.
1564Pope Pius V yield to Father General Laynez' request and approved that the Society should have no Cardinal Protector, but be under the pope's immediate protection.
1602Cardinal Bellarmine's first entrance into Capua. He entered on foot, reciting prayers, and carrying the arm of St. Stephen, Protomartyr.
1602The birth of Athanasius Kircher, S.J., scientist and polymath.
1706G. J. Kamel, S.J. Jesuit brother dies. The camellia flower is named after him.
1729Catherine the Great, is born. Empress for 34 years, she saved the Society of Jesus.
1929St. Jose Maria Rubio, S.J. dies, Madrid. Apostle of Madrid.
2014Paolo Molinari, SJ dies. Postulator General of the Society from 1957 to 2008. Worked on the canonization of 39 Saints and Blesseds, age 90.

 


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