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May 2054

27 Wednesday
  greenWednesday of the eighth week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle II [349] 1 Pet 1:18-25; Ps 147:12-13, 14-15, 19-20; Mark 10:32-45.
 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:160th anniversary of the death of P. Adolph Bontemps (36) d. 1894 at Swartfontein, RSA. Read Obituary
Anniversary:83rd anniversary of the death of P. James Wallace (55) d. 1971 at Inyanga, Republic of Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:72nd anniversary of the death of P. Wiliam Butler (70) d. 1982 at Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, England. Read Obituary
Anniversary:53rd 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 2054

Dominical Letter  d
Golden Number  3
Epact  xxi
Solar Cycle 19
Letter of the Martyrology B
Roman Year of Indiction 2
Julian Period Year 6767
Years since the confirmation of the Society 514
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  498
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 33
Sunday Readings  Cycle  B
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 29 March
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    3 May