{"id":7236,"date":"2011-01-18T17:07:01","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T23:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=7236"},"modified":"2011-07-01T17:56:32","modified_gmt":"2011-07-01T22:56:32","slug":"may-1-2011-confluence-of-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2011\/01\/18\/may-1-2011-confluence-of-events\/","title":{"rendered":"May 1, 2011: Confluence of Events?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It has been well publicized that Pope John Paul II will be beatified on May 1<\/a>. John Allen has noted what immediately struck me as no small coincidence when I went to add the date to my Liturgical Desk Calendar: not only does May 1 fall this year on the Second Sunday of Easter which has been observed since 2000 as Divine Mercy Sunday<\/q>…associated with a 20th<\/sup> century Polish nun, St. Faustina Kowalska, who was a visionary and mystic to whom John Paul II had a strong personal devotion<\/q> but ironically, May 1 is also May Day,<\/q> traditionally associated with the international Socialist movement, which is striking given that the collapse of European Communism is often flagged as John Paul’s central political accomplishment.<\/q> One wonders what this coincidence of dates may indicate regarding the future positioning of the Memorial of Saint John Paul, Pope. The late pontiff was born to eternal life on April 2, 2005 which was in that year the vigil of the Second Sunday of Easter cum<\/em><\/span> Divine Mercy Sunday. Will we have (for the first time?) a saint whose memorial is tied to the temporal rather than sanctoral calendar? Or will we need to wait until 2095<\/a> to have such a coincidence once more?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not only does May 1 fall this year on the Second Sunday of Easter which “has been observed since 2000 as ‘Divine Mercy Sunday’…associated with a 20th century Polish nun, St. Faustina Kowalska, who was a visionary and mystic to whom John Paul II had a strong personal devotion” but “ironically, May 1 is also ‘May Day,’ traditionally associated with the international Socialist movement, which is striking given that the collapse of European Communism is often flagged as John Paul’s central political accomplishment.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[91,362],"tags":[1430,870,1059,236,1431],"class_list":["post-7236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liturgical-year","category-saints-mary","tag-andrew-casad","tag-coinciding-calendars","tag-divine-mercy-sunday","tag-john-paul-ii","tag-st-faustina-kowalska"],"yoast_head":"\nMay 1, 2011: Confluence of Events? 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