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October 2023

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the Synod (Watch video(Read Reflection)
"Let us pray for the Church, that she may adopt listening and dialogue as a style of life at every level, allowing herself to be guided by the Holy Spirit towards the world’s peripheries."

11 Wednesday
  greenWednesday of the twenty-seventh week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle I [463] Jonah 4:1-11; Ps 86:3-4, 5-6, 9-10; Luke 11:1-4.
 Hours of the day.
  whiteSt John XXIII, pope
Common of Pastors: For a Pope
Readings from the Common of Saints: [655A] Ezek 34:11-16 (#719.9); Ps 23:1-3a, 4, 5, 6 (#721.2); John 21:15-17 (#724.12).
Optional
[RM]Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Philip, deacon (cf. Acts 8:5-6) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:112th anniversary of the death of P. Denys Corboy (60) d. 1911 at Bedford, England. Read Obituary
Anniversary:46th anniversary of the death of P. José João Gonçalves (72) d. 1977 at Covilhã, Portugal. Read Obituary

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1667The Feast of St. Ignatius is raised to a "double" and extended to the universal church.
1688King Louis XIV forbade all correspondence and interchange between the French Jesuits and Father General Thyrsus Gonzalez.
1688King Louis XIV forbade all correspondence and interchange between the French Jesuits and the Spanish General, Thyrsus Gonzalez. This petty tyranny lasted two years.
1723The deaths in Vietnam of Servants of God John Baptist Messari and Francis Mary Bucherelli, martyrs.
1958Pierre LeJay, S.J. dies. He was a French Jesuit, famed geophysicist, member of the French Academy, and did research on the continental drift.
1963Walter Ciszek, S.J. is freed from prison camp in Russia. He had been in detention since 1938.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2023

Dominical Letter  A
Golden Number  10
Epact  viii
Solar Cycle 16
Letter of the Martyrology h
Roman Year of Indiction 1
Julian Period Year 6736
Years since the confirmation of the Society 483
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  467
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 2
Sunday Readings  Cycle  A
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 9 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    16 April