SAP Jesuit Seal ONLINE LITURGICAL CALENDAR
Province of Southern Africa (SAP)
of the Society of Jesus

 
SAP JESUIT DAILY ORDO
 

Yesterday | Today | Tomorrow


March 2089

1 Tuesday
  violetTuesday in the Second Week of Lent
Mass of the day. Preface of Lent I - IV
 [231] Isa 1:10, 16-20; Ps 50:8-9, 16bc-17, 21+23; Matt 23:1-12.
Hours of the day.
Anniversary:96th anniversary of the death of F. John Werner (81) d. 1993 at Berlin, Germany. Read Obituary
Anniversary:95th anniversary of the death of P. Francis Venuta (63) d. 1994 at Boston, USA. Read Obituary
Birthday:119th birthday of P. Tomás ARMANDO (born this day in 1970).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1767Without warning or trial, Charles III expels the Jesuits from Spain. 10,000 are deported to the papal states.
1815Congress grants Georgetown University the power to confer degrees.
1915At the 26th General Congregation, the American Assistancy of the Society is set up. It consists of the existing American Provinces then in existence: Maryland-New York, Missouri, New Orleans, and California. Fr. Thomas Gannon is named the first American Assistant.
1937Hillaire Belloc lectures at Woodstock College, Maryland on Catholicism and Civilization.
2005Walter Halloran, age 83 dies. Involved in the 1949 exorcism case that led to the film The Exorcist.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2089

Dominical Letter  b
Golden Number  19
Epact  xvii
Solar Cycle 26
Letter of the Martyrology s
Roman Year of Indiction 7
Julian Period Year 6802
Years since the confirmation of the Society 549
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  533
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 68
Sunday Readings  Cycle  A
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 3 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    1 May