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Sunday, 8th March, 2026
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June 2027

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the good use of artificial intelligence. (Watch video) (Read Reflection)
"Let us pray that artificial intelligence might always be developed to serve human dignity and that we might know how to use it wisely."

First Quarter
10 Thursday
  greenThursday of the tenth week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle I [362] 2 Cor 3:15-4:1, 3-6; Ps 85:9-10, 11-12, 12-13; Matt 5:20-26.
 Hours of the day.
Anniversary:16th anniversary of the death of P. Anthony Berridge (60) d. 2011 at Harare, Zimbabwe. Read Obituary

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1546Peter Canisius is ordained, age 25. He has been a Jesuit for three years.
1769Clement XIV, the newly-elected Pope began to show coldness towards the Society.
1836Ampere, Andre-Marie dies in Marseille. He was a Jesuit Alumnus in the time of the suppression. He was born Jan. 20, 1775 in Lyon. A physicist, he founded and named the science of electrodynamics as Electromagnetism.
1933Charles Simons, of the California Province, is the first Jesuit ordained in China.
2008Norrie Clarke, S.J. dies, age 93. Philosopher, writer, Fordham University. Founder of the International Philosophical Quarterly.

 

VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2027

Dominical Letter  c
Golden Number  14
Epact  xxii
Solar Cycle 20
Letter of the Martyrology C
Roman Year of Indiction 5
Julian Period Year 6740
Years since the confirmation of the Society 487
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  471
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 6
Sunday Readings  Cycle  B
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 28 March
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    2 May