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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."

5 Monday
  whiteMonday in the Third Week of Easter
Mass of the day. Preface of Easter I - V "...in this time."
Cycle I [273] Acts 6:8-15; Ps 119:23-24, 26-27, 29-30; John 6:22-29.
Hours of the day.
Anniversary:71st anniversary of the death of P. Luís Lopes (87) d. 1954 at Baía, Brazil. Read Obituary
Anniversary:61st anniversary of the death of P. Daniel Byrne (HIB) (44) d. 1964 at Choma, N. Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:49th anniversary of the death of P. Henry Townsend (65) d. 1976 at London, England. Read Obituary
Anniversary:35th anniversary of the death of P. Pascoal AntĂłnio Frias (88) d. 1990 at Lisbon, Portugal. Read Obituary
Anniversary:20th anniversary of the death of P. John Gillick (89) d. 2005 at Cape Town, RSA. Read Obituary
Birthday:25th birthday of S. Luciano Francisco VÍCTOR (born this day in 2000).
Birthday:41st birthday of P. Izequiel L. Estanislau da COSTA (born this day in 1984).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1555In Portugal, Fr. John Nunez Baretto was consecrated Patriarch of Ethiopia. Fr. Andrew Oviedo was consecrated Bishop of Jerusalem. This was in preparation for their mission to Ethiopia.
1585In Japan the Emperor gave full leave to Fr. Gaspar Coelho, vice- provincial, to preach the Gospel.
1782At Coimbra, Sebastian Carvahlo, Marquis de Pombal, a cruel persecutor of the Society in Portugal, died in disgrace and exile. His body remained unburied fifty years, till Father Philip Delvaux performed the last rites in 1832.
1804The Fathers in Maryland desired to be aggregated to the Society in Russia.
1910Mary Lou Williams, jazz pianist, composer, is born. She was a convert to Catholicism by a Jesuit, and a Jesuit served as her musical agent.
1924The Apostolic Letter of Pope Pius XI to Father General, recalling the distinguished merits of the Gregorian University and deciding to build a grand edice.

 


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