May 2010

Sun Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri Sat
25
FOURTH SUNDAY OF EASTER (GOOD SHEPHERD SUNDAY)
26
Optional Memorial of Our Lady of Good Counsel (Can)
27
Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Easter; Our Lady of Montserrat (CAN)
28
Peter Chanel; Louis Mary de Montfort
29
Catherine of Siena
30
Pius V
1
Joseph the Worker
2
FIFTH SUNDAY OF EASTER
3
Philip and James, Apostles
4
Tuesday of the Fifth Week of Easter
5
Wednesday of the Fifth Week of Easter
6
Thursday of the Fifth Week of Easter
7
Friday of the Fifth Week of Easter
8
Saturday of the Fifth Week of Easter
9
SIXTH SUNDAY OF EASTER
10
Damien de Veuster (USA); John of Avila
11
Tuesday of the Sixth Week of Easter
12
Nereus and Achilleus; Pancras, Martyrs
13
Our Lady of Fatima
14
Matthias, Apostle
15
Isidore the Farmer (USA)
16
ASCENSION SUNDAY or the SEVENTH SUNDAY OF EASTER
17
Monday of the Seventh Week of Easter
18
John I
19
Wednesday of the Seventh Week of Easter
20
Bernardine of Siena
21
Christopher Magallanes & Companions
22
Rita of Cascia
23
PENTECOST
24
Monday of the Eighth Week of Ordinary Time: Australia: Solemnity of Mary Help of Christians; Bl. Louis-Zepherin Moreau (Canada)
25
Bede; Gregory VII; Mary Magdalene de Pazzi
26
Philip Neri; Minor Rogation Day
27
Augustine of Canterbury; Minor Rogation Day
28
Wednesday of the Sixth Week of Easter; Minor Rogation Day
29
Pope Paul VI or SOLEMNITY OF THE ASCENSION
30
TRINITY SUNDAY
31
Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
1
Justin
2
Marcellinus & Peter
3
Charles Lwanga & Companions
4
Friday of the Ninth Week of Ordinary Time
5
Boniface
Wed30 April
Easter

Wednesday of the Second Week of Easter; Opt. Mem. of St. Pius V, Pope and Religious

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Today is the Optional Memorial of St. Pius V (1504-1572). He joined the Dominicans at the age of fourteen; he was sixty-two when he was elected Pope. His reign, though short, was one of the most fruitful of the sixteenth century. To Protestantism, which had proclaimed the Reformation, St. Pius replied by…

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