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May 2096

6 Sunday
  whiteFourth Sunday of Easter
133rd World Day for Prayers for Priestly and Religious Vocations ('Good Shepherd' Sunday) (est. 1963)
Mass of the day, Gloria, Creed, Preface of Easter I - V.
Yr B [50] Acts 4:8-12; Ps 118:1+8-9, 21-23, 26+21+29; 1 John 3:1-2; John 10:11-18.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum.
Week 4 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:201st anniversary of the death of F. Augustine Book (39) d. 1895 at Chishawasha, BSA Co.. Read Obituary

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1638At Ypres, in Belgium, the death of Cornelius Jansenius, the founder of Jansenism, and author of the 'Augustinus', at which he worked for 20 years. Speaking of the Jesuits he said: "Perfecto odio oderam illos". (I detest them with a total hatred)
1816In a letter to Thomas Jefferson, John Adams called Jesuits "a body of men worthy of damnation."
1816Letter of John Adams to Thomas Jefferson mentioning the Jesuits. "If any congregation of men could merit eternal perdition on earth and in hell, it is the company of Loyola."
1927At St. Andrew on Hudson, a Junior runs to the Fathers and says that two KKK are burning down Della Strada chapel. The fathers investigate and discover two pious women with white handkerchiefs on their heads visiting the chapel and lighting candles.
1963Vincent A. McCormick, S.J. dies. He had been the American Assistant.
1989The death of Daniel Pasupasu. He had twice been provincial of Central Africa. Regarding a term of office for the General, he said simply that "in Africa the chief is chief for life." At CG 33.
1998Philip Caraman, S.J. dies. He was an author on Jesuit Saints/History.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2096

Dominical Letter  A g
Golden Number  7
Epact  v
Solar Cycle 5
Letter of the Martyrology e
Roman Year of Indiction 14
Julian Period Year 6809
Years since the confirmation of the Society 556
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  540
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 75
Sunday Readings  Cycle  B
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 15 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    15 April