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May 2032

27 Thursday
  greenThursday of the eighth week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle II [350] 1 Pet 2:2-5, 9-12; Ps 100:2, 3, 4, 5; Mark 10:46-52.
 Hours of the day.
  whiteSt Augustine of Canterbury, bishop
Common of Pastors: For Missionaries
Readings from the Common of Saints: [571] 1 Thess 2:2b-8 (#722.10); Ps 96:1-2a, 2b-3, 7-8a, 10 (#721.5); Matt 9:35-38 (#724.1).
Optional
Anniversary:138th anniversary of the death of P. Adolph Bontemps (36) d. 1894 at Swartfontein, RSA. Read Obituary
Anniversary:61st anniversary of the death of P. James Wallace (55) d. 1971 at Inyanga, Republic of Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:50th anniversary of the death of P. Wiliam Butler (70) d. 1982 at Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, England. Read Obituary
Anniversary:31st anniversary of the death of P. Michael Ross (85) d. 2001 at Harare, Zimbabwe. Read Obituary
Jubilee:Crystal Jubilee of P. Peter BANDA who celebrates 15 years of Priesthood today.
Jubilee:Crystal Jubilee of P. Mwamba D. MUTALE who celebrates 15 years of Priesthood today.

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 2032

Dominical Letter  d c
Golden Number  19
Epact  xvii
Solar Cycle 25
Letter of the Martyrology s
Roman Year of Indiction 10
Julian Period Year 6745
Years since the confirmation of the Society 492
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  476
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 11
Sunday Readings  Cycle  A
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 28 March
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    2 May