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May 2060

23 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 B [56] Acts 10:25-26, 34-35, 44-48; Ps 98:1, 2-3a, 3b-4; 1 John 4:7-10; John 15:9-17.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum.
Week 2 of the Psalter.

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1543Peter Canisius is accepted as a novice by Peter Faber. Canisius is ordained three years later.
1555At Rome the election Cadrdinal Gian Paolo Caraffa as Pope Paul IV. Overall he was favorable, but he would impose choir. Ignatian remarked to his friends that "every bone in my body was shaking."
1717The Christian Religion was proscribed throughout China soon after the condemnation of the Chinese Rites by Clement XI.
1874The death in St. Louis, Missouri, of Peter De Smet, intrepid Belgian missionary, who founded the Rocky Mountain Missions in the western United States and crossed the Atlantic 19 times in search of economic resources and vocations to staff the growing church.
1876Fr. De Buck, S.J. dies. He was important in the revival of the Bollandists.
1940Emile Mersch. S.J. is killed by bomb as he was bringing relief to wounded volunteers, on the feast of Corpus Christi. He left an unfinished manuscript on the Theology of the Mystical Body.
1976Br. Nicholas de Glos, S.J. diocesan inspector of schools, is stabbed to death in Chad, age 65.
1992Pierre LeRoy, S.J. dies. He was a close friend, correspondent, and defender of Teilhard de Chardin.
1993The blessing of the new pipe organ, made in England, at St. Ignatius Loyola Church, New York.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2060

Dominical Letter  d c
Golden Number  9
Epact  xxvii
Solar Cycle 25
Letter of the Martyrology H
Roman Year of Indiction 8
Julian Period Year 6773
Years since the confirmation of the Society 520
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  504
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 39
Sunday Readings  Cycle  B
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 18 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    25 April