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October 2025

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For collaboration between different religious traditions (Read Reflection)
"Let us pray that believers in different religious traditions might work together to defend and promote peace, justice and human fraternity."

10 Friday
  greenFriday of the twenty-seventh week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle I [465] Joel 1:13-15; 2:1-2; Ps 9:2-3, 6+16, 8-9; Luke 11:15-26.
 Hours of the day.
Archdioceses of Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg, South Africa [SACBC]
   whiteSt Daniel Comboni, BishopMemorial 
Common of Pastors
Anniversary:74th anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Furniss (71) d. 1951 at London, England. Read Obituary
Anniversary:27th anniversary of the death of P. Charles Hughes (91) d. 1998 at Blackburn, Lancs, England. Read Obituary
Anniversary:22nd anniversary of the death of P. Jock Earle (78) d. 2003 at London, England. Read Obituary

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1549The Province of India constituted, with Xavier as its first Provincial.
1806The first Novitiate of the Maryland Mission is opened, at Georgetown, in a house facing Holy Trinity Church. Ten Novices enter. The Novice Director is Fr. Francis Neale, himself a novice who had entered the Jesuits on that day.
1820At the 20th GC Father Petrucci, Vicar-General, led astray by the turbulent Father Rezzi, was deposed. Father Rezzi was expelled from the Society as a factiosus.
1938The first golf match is held between the theologians and philosophers at the new golf course at Woodstock. It ends in a tie, but the theologians win two days later in a playoff.
1948The official blessing and dedication of LeMoyne College, Syracuse, NY.
1949Letter of Fr. General Janssens, "Instruction on the Social Apostolate." 1950. Jan Korec is ordained a priest in prison in Czechoslovakia. One year later, at the age of 27, he is made a bishop, and a cardinal in 1991. He is released from prison in 1968.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2025

Dominical Letter  e
Golden Number  12
Epact  *
Solar Cycle 18
Letter of the Martyrology P
Roman Year of Indiction 3
Julian Period Year 6738
Years since the confirmation of the Society 485
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  469
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 4
Sunday Readings  Cycle  C
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 20 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    20 April