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May 2054

22 Friday
  greenFriday of the seventh week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle II [345] Jas 5:9-12; Ps 103:1-2, 3-4, 8-9, 11-12; Mark 10:1-12.
 Hours of the day.
  whiteSt Rita of Cascia, religious
Common of Holy Men and Women
Readings from the Common of Saints: [566B] Phil 4:4-9 (#740.10); Ps 1:1-2, 3, 4+6 (#739.1); Luke 6:27-38 (#742.18).
Optional
Anniversary:91st anniversary of the death of F. Henry Mercer (76) d. 1963 at Salisbury, Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:52nd 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 2054

Dominical Letter  d
Golden Number  3
Epact  xxi
Solar Cycle 19
Letter of the Martyrology B
Roman Year of Indiction 2
Julian Period Year 6767
Years since the confirmation of the Society 514
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  498
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 33
Sunday Readings  Cycle  B
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 29 March
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    3 May