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November 2023

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the Pope (Watch video(Read Reflection)
"Let us pray for the Pope that, with the help of the Holy Spirit, he may continue to accompany in the faith the flock entrusted to him."

1 Wednesday
  whiteALL SAINTSSolemnity
Mass of the solemnity; gloria, creed, preface of the solemnity.
Cycle I [667] Rev 7:2-4, 9-14; Ps 24:1bc-2, 3-4ab, 5-6; 1 Jn 3:1-3; Mt 5: 1-12a.
 Hours of the Solemnity; Te Deum.
Archdioceses of Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg, South Africa [SACBC]
Archdiocese of Harare, and Diocese of Chinhoyi, Zimbabwe [ZCBC]
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(Transferred to the following Sunday)
Use Mass from Ordinary Time for today (Of the day from [479]-[484])
Anniversary:95th anniversary of the death of P. AntoÌnio Maria dos Reis Arraiano (79) d. 1928 at BaiÌa, Brazil. Read Obituary
Anniversary:89th anniversary of the death of F. John Matzke (64) d. 1934 at Salisbury, Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:22nd anniversary of the death of F. José Coelho (92) d. 2001 at Braga, Portugal. Read Obituary
Birthday:20th birthday of S. Feliciano António DURÃO (born this day in 2003).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1567Pius V publishes an instruction forbidding bullfighting, supported and recommended by Francis Borgia. But this ban was lifted by the next Pope in 1585.
1573The first college of the Society opens in New Spain (Mexico) Sts. Peter and Paul.
1700The civil provincial assembly of New York and Maryland prohibits Jesuits and other ecclesiastics from exercising religious practices in their domains.
1893The Mission of Jamaica is transferred from England to Maryland/New York. The Mission of British Honduras is transferred from England to Missouri.
1945Rupert Mayer, S.J. dies (his feast is Nov 3, Blessed). He was in the pulpit celebrating Mass on the Feast of All Saints in St. Michael’s Church Munich, when he collapsed. He had been arrested, imprisoned for speaking out against Hitler. The Apostle of Munich.
1956The Society of Jesus is allowed legal existence in Norway.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2023

Dominical Letter  A
Golden Number  10
Epact  viii
Solar Cycle 16
Letter of the Martyrology h
Roman Year of Indiction 1
Julian Period Year 6736
Years since the confirmation of the Society 483
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  467
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 2
Sunday Readings  Cycle  A
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 9 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    16 April