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October 2022

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For a Church open to everyone (Watch video(Read Reflection)
"We pray for the Church; ever faithful to, and courageous in preaching the Gospel, may the Church be a community of solidarity, fraternity and welcome, always living in an atmosphere of synodality."

1 Saturday
  whiteSt Thérèse of the Child Jesus (i.e., of Lisieux), virgin and doctor of the Church
Mass of the feast; Gloria, preface of the feast.
 Hours of the feast; Te Deum.
Anniversary:70th anniversary of the death of P. Aloysius Baecher (83) d. 1952 at S. Salvador da Baía, Brazil. Read Obituary
Anniversary:49th anniversary of the death of M. Narcisse Rutta (24) d. 1973 at Lusaka, Zambia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:8th anniversary of the death of P. Gerry McIntyre (70) d. 2014 at Syracuse, NY, USA. Read Obituary

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1599Publication in Rome of the Official Directory for giving the Spiritual Exercises.
1606Blessed Julian Maunoir, B .
1879The College de la Sainte Famille opens in Cairo.
1900Loyola School, New York City, opens.
1911Piet Schoonenberg, S.J. is born. Theologian
1938Francis Cassilly, S.J. dies, Chicago. He wrote a high school catechism widely used.
1948The death in Portugal of Servant of God Francis Rodrigues da Cruz, famed as a confessor of the poor.
2000Pope John Paul II canonizes over 100 martyrs, including four Jesuits, Leo Mangin, Paul Denn, (martyred in China, 1880), Modesta Andlauer, Remigius Isore (killed in China 19 June, 2000)

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2022

Dominical Letter  b
Golden Number  9
Epact  xxvii
Solar Cycle 15
Letter of the Martyrology H
Roman Year of Indiction 15
Julian Period Year 6735
Years since the confirmation of the Society 482
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  466
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 1
Sunday Readings  Cycle  C
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 17 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    24 April