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May 2021

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: The world of finance (Watch video(Read Reflection)
"Let us pray that those in charge of finance will work with governments to regulate the financial sphere and protect citizens from its dangers."

27 Thursday
  whiteOur Lord Jesus Christ, the Eternal High PriestFeast
Mass of the feast. Gloria, Preface of the priesthood of Christ and of the Church
Yr B Jer 31:31-34 or Heb 10:11-18; Ps 110 (109):1b-e, 2, 3 (â„ź. 4b);  Mark 14:22-25.
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Hours of the feast. Te Deum.
Anniversary:127th anniversary of the death of P. Adolph Bontemps (36) d. 1894 at Swartfontein, RSA. Read Obituary
Anniversary:50th anniversary of the death of P. James Wallace (55) d. 1971 at Inyanga, Republic of Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:39th anniversary of the death of P. Wiliam Butler (70) d. 1982 at Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, England. Read Obituary
Anniversary:20th anniversary of the death of P. Michael Ross (85) d. 2001 at Harare, Zimbabwe. Read Obituary

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1547Pope Paul III acceded to the request that the Society of Jesus not have women as members nor have a parallel women’s order.
1702Fr. Dominique Bouhours, literary critic and author of lives of St. Ignatius and St. Francis Xavier, died at Paris. The poet John Dryden translated the latter into English after his conversion.
1930The death of José María Algué, one of the great meteorologists in the history of the world. He invented a machine to measure barometric pressure that saved many lives in the Far East.
1954Francis LeBuffe, S.J. dies. Author, Spiritual writer, lawyer, Sodalist, philosopher, anthropologist. From the New York Province, he died on Ascension Thursday.
1971Bernard Leeming, S.J. dies. Theologian and ecumenist, he attended Xavier High School in New York.
1974Herbert Musurillo, S.J. dies Classicist, patristic scholar.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2021

Dominical Letter  c
Golden Number  8
Epact  xvi
Solar Cycle 14
Letter of the Martyrology r
Roman Year of Indiction 14
Julian Period Year 6734
Years since the confirmation of the Society 481
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  465
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 0
Sunday Readings  Cycle  B
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 4 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    2 May