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September 2024

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the cry of the Earth (Watch video(Read Reflection)
"Let us pray that each of us listen with our hearts to the cry of the Earth and of the victims of environmental disasters and the climate crisis, making a personal commitment to care for the world we inhabit."

10 Tuesday
  greenTuesday of the twenty-third week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle II [438] 1 Cor 6:1-11; Ps 149:1b-2, 3-4, 5-6a+9b; Luke 6:12-19.
 Hours of the day.
  whiteBl Francis Garate, religious [SJ]
Texts in the Jesuit Supplement. (Download Mass texts and Divine Office texts here)
From the Common of Religious
Readings from the Common of Saints:
Optional
Anniversary:131st anniversary of the death of M. Roland Thomas (29) d. 1893 at Grahamstown, RSA. Read Obituary
Anniversary:47th anniversary of the death of P. Michael Costello (65) d. 1977 at New York, NY, USA. Read Obituary
Anniversary:12th anniversary of the death of P. Hermann Husemann (85) d. 2012 at Harare, Zimbabwe. Read Obituary
Birthday:65th birthday of P. Simon MAKURU (born this day in 1959).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

Blessed Br. Francis Garate, S.J. Memorial.
Blessed Francis Gárate, Religious (Optional Memorial)

Francis Gárate (1857-1929) was born in a farmhouse just a hundred yards from the Loyola Castle in Spain. After some elementary education, at the age of fourteen he began work as a domestic servant at the Jesuit college in Orduña, Spain. In 1874, he joined the Society as a coadjutor Brother. From 1877 to 1888 he served as infirmarian and sacristan at the Jesuit College in La Guardia, near the Portuguese border. He went about his duty most meticulously, caring for the sick, often spending whole nights by their bedside. The strain was too much for him and he was transferred to the University college at Deusto, in Bilbao, Spain, as doorkeeper, remaining there for the next forty-one years. He was known for his holiness, piety, kindness and courtesy.

1523After several months of sailing and a week of waiting in the harbour at Joppa to disembark, Ignatius finally entered the city of Jerusalem as a pilgrim. He could not stay in Holy Land. He would depart from Jaffa on October 3rd.
1622At Nagasaki, the martyrdom of Charles Spinola and companions. 1773. Clement XIV’s letter of suppression is published in Vienna.
1839Charles Sanders Peirce is born at 3 Phillips Place, Cambridge, MA. Later this house is the center of Weston Jesuit School of Theolog
1919The Mission of Patna, India is assigned to the Missouri Province.
1931A devastating hurricane destroys St. John’s College in Belize and takes the lives of 11 Jesuits. One account said: "The hurricane demolished everything but hope." 6 priests, 4 scholastics, 1 brother, as well as some students at St. John's College.
1946The death of Robert Jacquinot, called "the savior of Shanghai", saved 500,000 Chinese lives in the refugee zone of Shanghai from 1937-40.
1957Pope Pius XII addresses the 30th General Congregation on the use of tobacco, etc. as superfluities.
2001The death of Xavier Diaz del Rio, publisher of Ignis magazine and editor of the Gujarat Press for many years.
2005Michael Ivens, S.J. dies. Expert on the Spiritual Exercises, British Province. Understanding the Spiritual Exercises.

 


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