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January 2023

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For educators (Watch video(Read Reflection)
"Let us pray that educators may be credible witnesses, teaching fraternity rather than competition, and helping the youngest and most vulnerable in particular."

10 Tuesday
 greenTuesday of the first week in Ordinary Time.
 Mass ad lib.
Cycle I [306] Heb 2:5-12; Ps 8:2, 5, 6-7, 8-9; Mark 1:21-28.
 Hours of the day.
Anniversary:2nd anniversary of the death of P. Hans Belser (HEL) (93) d. 2021 at Menzingen, Switzerland.
Birthday:48th birthday of P. Kelly MICHELO (born this day in 1975).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1567Two Jesuits arrive in Havana, Cuba, as a base for evangelization.
1581Queen Elizabeth signed the fifth Penal Statute in England inflicting heavy fines and imprisonment on all who harbored Jesuits and Seminary priests.
1607St. Isaac Jogues is born in Orleans.
1910The death of Fr. Patrick Healy, S.J. He was President, and second founder of Georgetown University (1873-82).
1920Vincent O'Keefe, S.J. is born. He was an Assistant, and vicar general under Pedro Arrupe.
1978Gerald Van Ackeren, S.J. dies. Co-founder of Theology Digest, and editor for 25 years.
1984Fr. John Srna dies (76) in Czechoslovakia. As provincial of Slovakia, he could make only one recorded trip to Rome.

 


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