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May 2077

27 Thursday
  whiteThursday in the Seventh Week of Easter
Mass of the day. Preface of Ascension or of Easter "...in this time."
Cycle I [300] Acts 22:30; 23:6-11; Ps 16:1-2a+5, 7-8, 9-10, 11; John 17:20-26.
Hours of the day.
  white St Augustine of Canterbury, bishopOptional
 (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).)
Anniversary:183rd anniversary of the death of P. Adolph Bontemps (36) d. 1894 at Swartfontein, RSA. Read Obituary
Anniversary:106th anniversary of the death of P. James Wallace (55) d. 1971 at Inyanga, Republic of Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:95th anniversary of the death of P. Wiliam Butler (70) d. 1982 at Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, England. Read Obituary
Anniversary:76th anniversary of the death of P. Michael Ross (85) d. 2001 at Harare, Zimbabwe. Read Obituary
Jubilee:Diamond Jubilee of P. Mwamba D. MUTALE who celebrates 60 years of Priesthood today.
Jubilee:Diamond Jubilee of P. Peter BANDA who celebrates 60 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 2077

Dominical Letter  c
Golden Number  7
Epact  v
Solar Cycle 14
Letter of the Martyrology e
Roman Year of Indiction 10
Julian Period Year 6790
Years since the confirmation of the Society 537
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  521
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 56
Sunday Readings  Cycle  A
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 11 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    18 April