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May 2054

3 Sunday
  whiteSixth Sunday of Easter
Mass of the day, Gloria, Creed, Preface of Easter I - V.
Where Ascension is celebrated on the Seventh Sunday of Easter, today's second reading & gospel may be from Seventh Sunday of Easter if desired.
Yr B [56] Acts 10:25-26, 34-35, 44-48; Ps 98:1, 2-3a, 3b-4; 1 John 4:7-10; John 15:9-17.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum.
Week 2 of the Psalter.
[RM]Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. James, apostle and patron of the diocese (cf. Acts 1:13-14a) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:63rd anniversary of the death of F. Francis Ãœberman (94) d. 1991 at Stara Wies, Poland. Read Obituary
Anniversary:30th anniversary of the death of P. Henry Tafadzwa Masakare (SAP) (41) d. 2024 at Harare, Zimbabwe. Read Obituary
Birthday:68th birthday of F. Arnold MURWIRA (born this day in 1986).
Birthday:62nd birthday of S. Innocent G. KALULU (born this day in 1992).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1560The first band of Jesuit missionaries head to Angola.
1606The martyrdom of Henry Garnet, SJ, who was falsely charged with complicity in the Gunpowder Plot. At St. Paul's Churchyard, London.
1611At Nanking, the opening of the first church, a Jesuit one, in that city. 1764. The last of the French Canadian Jesuit martyrs, Fr. Simon Gounon, drowns taking communion to the sick.
1900Hugo Rahner, S.J. is born.
1945Innsbruck is taken over by the American troops. Theology at the Canisianum resumes a few months later.
1978The death of Leo C. Brown, labor arbitrator who from 1942 to his death served as mediator for hundreds of worker-management disputes.
1987Rupert Mayer, S.J. is beatified in Munich. Apostle of Munich.
1994Vincent Potter dies. Philosopher, professor at Fordham, expert on C.S. Peirce.

 


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