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August 2025

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For mutual coexistence (Read Reflection)
"Let us pray that societies where coexistence seems more difficult might not succumb to the temptation of confrontation for ethnic, political, religious or ideological reasons."

10 Sunday
  greenNineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mass of the Sunday; gloria, creed.
Yr C [117] Wis 18:6-9; Ps 33:1+12, 18-19, 20-22; Heb 11:1-2, 8-19 or 11:1-2, 8-12; Luke 12:32-48 or 12:35-40.
 Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum.
Week 3 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:134th anniversary of the death of F. Theodore Nigg (44) d. 1891 at Keilands, RSA. Read Obituary
Anniversary:118th anniversary of the death of S. Camilo Besset (28) d. 1907 at Boroma Mission, Mozambique. Read Obituary
Anniversary:113th anniversary of the death of P. Peter McPhillips (38) d. 1912 at Lusaka, N. Rhodesia.
Anniversary:85th anniversary of the death of P. João de Azevedo Mendes (57) d. 1940 at Barcelos, Portugal. Read Obituary
Anniversary:83rd anniversary of the death of F. Paul Gencewieze (69) d. 1942 at Salisbury, Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:47th anniversary of the death of P. Paul Bajan (66) d. 1978 at Pretoria, RSA. Read Obituary
Birthday:36th birthday of S. Gibson PHIRI (born this day in 1989).
Birthday:37th birthday of S. Evans TEMBO (born this day in 1988).
Birthday:84th 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 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