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May 2025

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For working conditions (Read Reflection)
"Let us pray that through work, each person might find fulfilment, families might be sustained in dignity, and that society might be humanized."

28 Wednesday
  whiteWednesday in the Sixth Week of Easter
Mass of the day. Preface of Easter I - V "...in this time."
Cycle I [293] Acts 17:15, 22-18:1; Ps 148:1-2, 11-12, 13, 14; John 16:12-15.
Hours of the day.
Anniversary:110th anniversary of the death of P. Kenelm Digby-Beste (39) d. 1915 at Bulawayo, BSA Co.. Read Obituary
Anniversary:35th anniversary of the death of P. Maximilian Prokoph (80) d. 1990 at Johannesburg, RSA. Read Obituary
Anniversary:3rd anniversary of the death of P. Andrews Thekkekara (MDU) (90) d. 2022 at Harare, Zimbabwe. Read Obituary
Birthday:53rd birthday of P. Kapyunga Boyd Christopher NYIRENDA (born this day in 1972).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1537Francis Borgia converted from the vanities of the world by the sight of Empress Isabella’s corpse.
1547Letter of St. Ignatius on zeal and religious perfection.
1600Father Matthew Ricci, undismayed by the failure of his first visit to Peking, set out again from Nanking with many rich presents for the Emperor, of which he was robbed on the way.
1634Ven. Father Thomas Holland, martyr, took the vows of a Spiritual Coadjutor. He is said to have heroically swallowed a spider that fell into the chalice during Mass. He is now a saint.
1648At Murcia in Spain died Fr. Andre Salvatierra, famous mission in California. On several occasions he won a hearing for the Gospel by first playing on the lute for the native peoples.
1881Cardinal Bea, is born.
1962The death of Bernard Hubbard, S.J., in Santa Clara, California. He is the author of the book Mush, You Malemutes! and articles in the Saturday Evening Post on the Alaska mission. "The Glacier Priest" – for climbing the Austrian Alps!
1981The death of Mary Lou Williams, jazz pianist. Convert to Catholicism, she wrote jazz Masses. Jesuits assisted her and one acted as her musical agent.
1987Hugh Costigan, S.J. dies. Missionary to Micronesia.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2025

Dominical Letter  e
Golden Number  12
Epact  *
Solar Cycle 18
Letter of the Martyrology P
Roman Year of Indiction 3
Julian Period Year 6738
Years since the confirmation of the Society 485
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  469
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 4
Sunday Readings  Cycle  C
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 20 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    20 April