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May 2024

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the formation of men and women religious, and seminarians (Watch video(Read Reflection)
"Let us pray that men and women religious, and seminarians, grow in their own vocational journey through human, pastoral, spiritual and community formation, that leads them to be credible witnesses of the Gospel."

25 Saturday
  greenSaturday of the seventh week.
1st World Children's Day (est. 2024)
Mass of the day.
Cycle II [346] Jas 5:13-20; Ps 141:1-2, 3+8; Mark 10:13-16.
 Hours of the day.
  whiteSt Bede the Venerable, priest and doctor of the Church
Common of Pastors, or Common of Doctors of the Church
Readings from the Common of Saints: [567] 1 Cor 2:10b-16 (#728.3); Ps 119:9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 (#727.3); Matt 7:21-29 (#730.2).
Optional
  white   greenSaturday Memorial of the Blessed Virgin MaryOptional
  whiteSt Gregory VII, pope
Common of Pastors: For a Pope
Readings from the Common of Saints: [568] Acts 20:17-18a. 28-32, 36 (#720.2); Ps 110:1, 2, 3, 4 (#721.7); Matt 16:13-19 (#724.2).
Optional
  whiteSt Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi, virgin
Common of Virgins, or Common of Holy Men and Women: For Religious
Readings from the Common of Saints: [569] 1 Cor 7:25-35 (#734.1); Ps 148:1-2, 11-13, 13-14 (#733.2); Mark 3:31-35 (#742.14).
Optional
Anniversary:9th anniversary of the death of P. John Doyle (84) d. 2015 at Pickering, ON, Canada. Read Obituary
Birthday:36th birthday of P. Frank Fanie TARUWONA (born this day in 1988).
Birthday:56th birthday of P. Nathanael MITI (born this day in 1968).
Birthday:32nd birthday of S. Paul KANDA (born this day in 1992).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1537St. Francis Borgia was converted from the vanities of the world by the sight of Empress Isabella’s corpse.
1590In Japan died Father Gaspar Coelho, a renowed missioner, who with only one companion, converted 35,000 persons and sixty Bonzes to the Church.
1621St. John Berchmans offered to God l00 acts of self-humiliation in honor of St. Aloysius.
1773The scholastics at Bologna, Italy, pressed immediately before the suppression by Cardinal Malvezzi to take off their religious habit and accept dispensation from their vows, refused to listen to him.
1773The Scholastics at Bologna, pressed by Cardinal Malvezzi to take off their Religious habit and accept dispensation from their vows, refused to listen to him.
1802The death of John Carroll, member of the Society before the Suppression, founder of Georgetown University and as first bishop of Baltimore, the founder of the U.S. hierarchy.
1879St. Patrick's Cathedral in NYC is consecrated. The property had been purchased by Anton Kohlmann, S.J.
1989Philip Carey, S.J. dies Labor priest, mediator, of the Labor Relations Institute at Xavier Parish in New York City.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2024

Dominical Letter  g f
Golden Number  11
Epact  xix
Solar Cycle 17
Letter of the Martyrology u
Roman Year of Indiction 2
Julian Period Year 6737
Years since the confirmation of the Society 484
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  468
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 3
Sunday Readings  Cycle  B
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 31 March
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    5 May