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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."

11 Wednesday
  greenWednesday of the twenty-third week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle II [439] 1 Cor 7:25-31; Ps 45:11-12, 14-15, 16-17; Luke 6:20-26.
 Hours of the day.
Anniversary:105th anniversary of the death of P. John Ross (62) d. 1919 at St Beuno's, Tremeirchion, N Wales. Read Obituary
Birthday:50th birthday of P. Nicholas PENGE (born this day in 1974).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1681Geoffrey Henschen dies at Antwerp. He was an assistant to Fr. Bollandus in the research on the saints.
1860The Jesuits were expelled from Sicily and all their possessions conï¬scated.
1995Henry De Decker, S.J. dies in the Cameroons. He was the first Rector of Hekima College, Nairobi, and was the Secretary of JESAM (Major Superiors of Africa) for thirteen years.
2003Ignace de la Potterie, Belgian Jesuit, Johannine scholar, dies. Professor at the Biblical Institute.

 


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