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August 2024

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For political leaders (Watch video) (Read Reflection)
"Let us pray that political leaders be at the service of their own people, working for integral human development and the common good, taking caring of those who have lost their jobs and giving priority to the poor."
10 Saturday
  redSt Lawrence, deacon and martyr
Mass of the feast; Gloria, preface of the feast.
Yr B[618] 2 Cor 9:6-10; Ps 112:1-2, 5-6, 7-8, 9; John 12:24-26.
 Hours of the feast; Te Deum.
Anniversary:133rd anniversary of the death of F. Theodore Nigg (44) d. 1891 at Keilands, RSA. Read Obituary
Anniversary:117th anniversary of the death of S. Camilo Besset (28) d. 1907 at Boroma Mission, Mozambique. Read Obituary
Anniversary:112th anniversary of the death of P. Peter McPhillips (38) d. 1912 at Lusaka, N. Rhodesia.
Anniversary:84th anniversary of the death of P. João de Azevedo Mendes (57) d. 1940 at Barcelos, Portugal. Read Obituary
Anniversary:82nd anniversary of the death of F. Paul Gencewieze (69) d. 1942 at Salisbury, Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:46th anniversary of the death of P. Paul Bajan (66) d. 1978 at Pretoria, RSA. Read Obituary
Birthday:35th birthday of S. Gibson PHIRI (born this day in 1989).
Birthday:36th birthday of S. Evans TEMBO (born this day in 1988).
Birthday:83rd birthday of P. David DRYDEN (born this day in 1941).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1560A letter of Polanco in Lainez's name, to all superiors on our ministries. It emphasizes the shift and emphasis on education and the colleges, as the special ministry of the Society.
1567Stanislaus Kostka leaves Vienna at dawn, to join the Society of Jesus in Germany and eventually enters in Rome.
1654Eusebio Francis Kino is born in Italy. He was a missionary to California. 1868. Expulsion of the Society from Mexico and seizure of its property.
1868The Society was expelled from Mexico and all its property conscated.
1944Yves de Montcheuil, S.J. dies. A theologian and chaplain, he was arrested while ministering to men of the resistance, and shot by Germans at Grenoble shortly before liberation.
1981Fr. Arrupe names General Assistant Vincent O'Keefe to be temporary Vicar General to handle the government of the Society.
2018Carlos Riudavets Montes, SJ is murdered in Peru.

 

VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2024

Dominical Letter  g f
Golden Number  11
Epact  xix
Solar Cycle 17
Letter of the Martyrology u
Roman Year of Indiction 2
Julian Period Year 6737
Years since the confirmation of the Society 484
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  468
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 3
Sunday Readings  Cycle  B
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 31 March
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    5 May