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May 2077

29 Saturday
  whiteSaturday in the Seventh Week of Easter
Mass of the day. Preface of Ascension or of Easter "...in this time."
Cycle I [302] Acts 28:16-20, 30-31; Ps 11:4, 5+7; John 21:20-25.
Hours of the day.
  white St Paul VI, popeOptional
 (Common of Pastors: For a Pope
Readings from the Common of Saints: [571A] 1 Cor 9:16-19, 22-23 (#722.4); Ps 96:1-2a, 2b-3, 7-8a, 10 (#721.5); Matt 16:13-19 (#724.2).)

In the evening:
  redVigil of PentecostSolemnity
Mass of the Vigil; Gloria, sequence, creed, Preface of Pentecost, special Communicantes in Eucharistic Prayer I. Double alleluia at the dismissal
 [62] Gen 11:1-9 or Exod 19:3-8a, 16-20b or Ezek 37:1-14 or Joel 3:1-5; Ps 104:1-2, 24+35, 27-28, 29b-30; John 7:37-39.
For pastoral reasons, the texts of the day Mass may also be used.
Archdioceses of Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg, South Africa [SACBC]
   whiteBl Joseph Gerard, PriestOptional 
Common of Pastors
Anniversary:178th anniversary of the death of F. Peter Paravicini (64) d. 1899 at Itu, Brazil. Read Obituary
Anniversary:68th anniversary of the death of P. Gerald McCabe (76) d. 2009 at Harare, Zimbabwe. Read Obituary
Birthday:102nd birthday of P. Augusto CĂ©sar Pedro JĂ“ (born this day in 1975).
Birthday:95th birthday of P. Shepherd MUHAMBA (born this day in 1982).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

St. Ursula Ledochowska, Foundress of missionary sisters, sister of Jesuit General and Blessed Teresa Ledochowska. Congregation of the Ursulines of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus.
1566Father Pedro Martinez and two companions set sail for Florida, a region occupied at the time by barbarous tribes. (FB)
1760The bankrupt creditors of Fr. Antoine Lavalette, superior of the Martinique mission, press the Society to repay his unauthorized trading debts, an occasion helping to lead to the banning of the Society in France.
1815The restoration of the Society in Spain was proclaimed by royal decree.
1991John Paul II announces that Paulo Dezza, S.J. is to become a Cardinal, as well as Jan Korec, in Slovakia. There are now seven Jesuit Cardinals, the largest number ever.

 


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