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May 2028

21 Sunday
  whiteSixth Sunday of Easter
Mass of the day, Gloria, Creed, Preface of Easter I - V.
Where Ascension is celebrated on the Seventh Sunday of Easter, today's second reading & gospel may be from Seventh Sunday of Easter if desired.
Yr C [57] Acts 15:1-2, 22-29; Ps 67:2-3, 5, 6+8; Rev 21:10-14, 22-23; John 14:23-29.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum.
Week 2 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:106th anniversary of the death of P. Edward Parry (60) d. 1922 at Katondwe, N. Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:100th anniversary of the death of P. Francis Richartz (73) d. 1928 at Salisbury, Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:54th anniversary of the death of P. Thomas Warrington (73) d. 1974 at Salisbury, Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:46th anniversary of the death of P. David Murphy (HIB) (38) d. 1982 at Dublin, Ireland. Read Obituary
Anniversary:44th anniversary of the death of P. Stanislaw Nowicki (73) d. 1984 at Lusaka, Zambia. Read Obituary

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1568Pope St. Pius V wrote a letter to the Archbishop of Cologne asking him to befriend the Society of Jesus and its college in that city.
1758Laurence Ricci is elected General. He was chosen to guide the Society through a sea of storms. He will die in 1775 after imprisonment in Castel S. Angelo.
1925Pius XI canonizes Peter Canisius, with Teresa of the Child Jesus and Mary Madeleine Postal, Madeleine Sophie Barat, John Vianney, and John Eudes. Canisius is declared a Doctor of the Church.
2003The death of Victor Mertens, S.J. age 90. He had been Vice-Provincial and Provincial of Central Africa, Counselor to Fr. General and Assistant for Africa from 1971-80.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2028

Dominical Letter  b A
Golden Number  15
Epact  iii
Solar Cycle 21
Letter of the Martyrology c
Roman Year of Indiction 6
Julian Period Year 6741
Years since the confirmation of the Society 488
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  472
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 7
Sunday Readings  Cycle  C
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 16 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    16 April