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May 2026

25 Monday
  whiteThe Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the ChurchMemorial
Mass of the Memorial (Votive Mass #10B)
These readings are proper to the memorial.
cf. [572A] Gen 3: 9-15, 20 or Acts 1: 12-14; Ps 86: 1-2, 3 & 5, 5-7; Jn 19: 25-34
Hours of the memorial (From Votive Masses: 10. Blessed Virgin Mary, B. Our Lady, Mother of the Church.)
 Seasonal weekday readings:
 [347] 1 Pet 1:3-9; Ps 111:1-2, 5-6, 9+10c; Mark 10:17-27.
Anniversary:11th anniversary of the death of P. John Doyle (84) d. 2015 at Pickering, ON, Canada. Read Obituary
Birthday:38th birthday of P. Frank Fanie TARUWONA (born this day in 1988).
Birthday:58th birthday of P. Nathanael MITI (born this day in 1968).
Birthday:34th 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 2026

Dominical Letter  d
Golden Number  13
Epact  xi
Solar Cycle 19
Letter of the Martyrology l
Roman Year of Indiction 4
Julian Period Year 6739
Years since the confirmation of the Society 486
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  470
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 5
Sunday Readings  Cycle  A
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 5 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    12 April