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May 2034

21 Sunday
  whiteAscension of the Lord
68th World Communications Sunday (est. 1967)
Mass of the Vigil or of the Solemnity, Gloria, Creed, Preface of Ascension I - II Special Communicantes in Eucharistic Prayer I.
Yr C [61] Acts 7:55-60; Ps 97:1-2, 6-7, 9; Rev 22:12-14, 16-17, 20; John 17:20-26.
Hours of the Solemnity. Te Deum.Week 3 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:112th anniversary of the death of P. Edward Parry (60) d. 1922 at Katondwe, N. Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:106th anniversary of the death of P. Francis Richartz (73) d. 1928 at Salisbury, Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:60th anniversary of the death of P. Thomas Warrington (73) d. 1974 at Salisbury, Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:52nd anniversary of the death of P. David Murphy (HIB) (38) d. 1982 at Dublin, Ireland. Read Obituary
Anniversary:50th 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 2034

Dominical Letter  A
Golden Number  2
Epact  x
Solar Cycle 27
Letter of the Martyrology k
Roman Year of Indiction 12
Julian Period Year 6747
Years since the confirmation of the Society 494
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  478
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 13
Sunday Readings  Cycle  C
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 9 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    9 April