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November 2023

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the Pope (Watch video(Read Reflection)
"Let us pray for the Pope that, with the help of the Holy Spirit, he may continue to accompany in the faith the flock entrusted to him."

11 Saturday
  whiteSt Martin of Tours, bishopMemorial
Mass of the memorial; preface of the weekday, or of the saint.
Cycle I [490] Rom 16:3-9, 16, 22-27; Ps 145:2-3, 4-5, 10-11; Luke 16:9-15.
Hours of the Memorial.
Common of Pastors, or Common of Holy Men and Women: For Religious
Readings from the Common of Saints: [673] Isa 61:1-3abcd (#719.6); Ps 89:2-3, 4-5, 21-22, 25+27 (#721.4); Matt 25:31-40 (#742.13).
Anniversary:22nd anniversary of the death of P. Cirilo Moisés Mateus Magagula (64) d. 2001 at Moatize Hospital, Tete, Rep. of Mozambique. Read Obituary
Birthday:77th birthday of P. Charles SEARSON (born this day in 1946).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1590Father Robert Bellarmine was appointed by Gregory XIV to supervise the revision of the Vulgate, a work begun by Sixtus V.
1614The arm of Xavier brought from Goa to Rome, was received in the Eternal City with extraordinary solemnity.
1616At Paris died Fr. John Gontery. He was very dull as a scholastic, but imploring Our Lady's help he became a powerful defender of the Church against Calvinists.
1649In the Philippines, Father Vincent Damiani, a devoted worker in the Lord’s vineyard, was run through with a spear out of hatred of the faith.
1982Robert Gleason, S.J. dies Fordham University, theologian, Grace.

 


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