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May 2078

8 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.
Anniversary:158th anniversary of the death of P. Richard Sykes (66) d. 1920 at Dunbrody, RSA. Read Obituary
Anniversary:119th anniversary of the death of P. Augustine Ganley (59) d. 1959 at Salisbury, Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:103rd anniversary of the death of P. Terence Corrigan (59) d. 1975 at London, England. Read Obituary
Anniversary:86th anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Sommer (77) d. 1992 at Clarkston, USA. Read Obituary

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1521Peter Canisius is born in Nijmegen. This is sixteen days before St. Ignatius is wounded.
1586Fathers Henry Garnet and Robert Southwell left Rome for the English mission.
1853Jan Roothaan dies. He was the 2lst General of the Society and General for 24 years. His furtherance of the Spiritual Exercises, the foreign missions, and education, greatly influenced the spirit and works of the Society. He is a Servant of God.
1861President Abraham Lincoln visits Georgetown University to review the 69th New York Regiment which was based there.
1900Sod is turned, the beginning of building of the novitiate of St. Andrew on Hudson, Poughkeepsie, NY.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2078

Dominical Letter  b
Golden Number  8
Epact  xvi
Solar Cycle 15
Letter of the Martyrology r
Roman Year of Indiction 11
Julian Period Year 6791
Years since the confirmation of the Society 538
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  522
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 57
Sunday Readings  Cycle  B
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 3 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    8 May