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May 2067

20 Friday
  whiteFriday in the Seventh Week of Easter
Mass of the day. Preface of Ascension or of Easter "...in this time."
Cycle I [301] Acts 25:13b-21; Ps 103:1-2, 11-12, 19-20ab; John 21:15-19.
Hours of the day.
  white St Bernardine of Siena, priestOptional
 (Common of Pastors: For Missionaries
Readings from the Common of Saints: [566] Acts 4:8-12; Ps 40:2, 4, 7-8, 8-9, 10, 11 (#721.3); Luke 9:57-62 (#742.19).)
Anniversary:114th anniversary of the death of P. Emil Schmitz (82) d. 1953 at Salisbury, Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:99th anniversary of the death of P. Kenneth Tasman (78) d. 1968 at Salisbury, Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Jubilee:Oak Jubilee of P. Lawrence DAKA who celebrates 80 years in the Society today.

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1521Ignatius was seriously wounded at Pamplona, Spain, while defending its fortress against the French.
1521St. Ignatius was seriously wounded while defending the Castle of Pamplona against the French.
1622The death of Pedro Paez, S.J., a Spanish missionary to Ethiopia, the second apostle of Ethiopia. He reached Ethiopia in 1603 after 15 years of journey because en route he was enslaved by Turkish pirates for 7 years. He was the first European to see the source of the blue Nile, he wrote a history of Ethiopia and learned several languages.
1823Saint Louis University (St. Louis College) is founded.
1961In a letter dated 20 May, Fr. Swain, Vicar-General formally approved the Institute of Jesuit Sources. The plan was launched unofficially the previous year when Fr. Janssens gave Fr. Ganss permission to start work on an English version of the Constitutions.
1968J. Franklin (Buck) Ewing, S.J. dies anthropologist, missiologist.
1973The Society of Jesus allowed in Switzerland after a Referendum.
1974Jean Cardinal Danielou, SJ, dies in Paris, engaged in ministry.
2020Death of Adolfo Nicolas in Tokyo.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2067

Dominical Letter  b
Golden Number  16
Epact  xiv
Solar Cycle 4
Letter of the Martyrology P
Roman Year of Indiction 15
Julian Period Year 6780
Years since the confirmation of the Society 527
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  511
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 46
Sunday Readings  Cycle  C
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 3 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    10 April