SAP Jesuit Seal ONLINE LITURGICAL CALENDAR
Province of Southern Africa (SAP)
of the Society of Jesus

 
SAP JESUIT DAILY ORDO
 

Yesterday | Today | Tomorrow


May 2073

21 Sunday
  whiteThe Most Holy Trinity
Texts found in Missal and Lit. of the Hours after propers for Ordinary Time.
Solemnity
Yr C [166] Prov 8:22-31; Ps 8:4-5, 6-7, 8-9; Rom 5:1-5; John 16:12-15.
Hours of the Solemnity. Te Deum. At Evening Prayer II, double alleluia at dismissal
Anniversary:151st anniversary of the death of P. Edward Parry (60) d. 1922 at Katondwe, N. Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:145th anniversary of the death of P. Francis Richartz (73) d. 1928 at Salisbury, Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:99th anniversary of the death of P. Thomas Warrington (73) d. 1974 at Salisbury, Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:91st anniversary of the death of P. David Murphy (HIB) (38) d. 1982 at Dublin, Ireland. Read Obituary
Anniversary:89th 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 2073

Dominical Letter  A
Golden Number  3
Epact  xxi
Solar Cycle 10
Letter of the Martyrology B
Roman Year of Indiction 6
Julian Period Year 6786
Years since the confirmation of the Society 533
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  517
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 52
Sunday Readings  Cycle  C
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 26 March
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    30 April