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May 2050

22 Sunday
  whiteAscension of the Lord
84th 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 A [59] Acts 1:12-14; Ps 27:1, 4, 7-8; 1 Pet 4:13-16; John 17:1-11a.
Hours of the Solemnity. Te Deum.Week 3 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:87th anniversary of the death of F. Henry Mercer (76) d. 1963 at Salisbury, Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:48th anniversary of the death of P. Cedric Myerscough (76) d. 2002 at Cape Town, RSA. Read Obituary

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1569At Rome the Society was installed by Pope St. Pius V in the College of Penitentiaries, fathers of different nationalities there resident being Required to act as confessors in St. Peter’s. At the Suppression, Clement XIV replaced the Jesuits by Conventuals.
1611Pierre Biard and Ennemond Masse are the first Jesuits to set foot in New France, Arcadia.
1617At Nagasaki the glorious martyrdom of Blessed John Baptist Machado, beheaded for the faith. On hearing his death sentence, he sang the Te Deum.
1965Pedro Arrupe was elected the 28th superior general of the Society of Jesus in GC31

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2050

Dominical Letter  b
Golden Number  18
Epact  vi
Solar Cycle 15
Letter of the Martyrology f
Roman Year of Indiction 13
Julian Period Year 6763
Years since the confirmation of the Society 510
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  494
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 29
Sunday Readings  Cycle  A
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 10 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    17 April