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February 2022

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For religious sisters and consecrated women (Watch video(Read Reflection)
"We pray for religious sisters and consecrated women; thanking them for their mission and their courage; may they continue to find new responses to the challenges of our times."

12 Saturday
 greenSaturday of the fifth week in Ordinary Time.
 Mass ad lib.
Cycle II [334] 1 Kgs 12:26-32; 13:33-34; Ps 106:6-7ab, 19-20, 21-22; Mark 8:1-10.
 Hours of the day.
  white   greenSaturday Memorial of the Blessed Virgin MaryOptional
Anniversary:118th anniversary of the death of P. Reginald Colley (55) d. 1904 at Stonyhurst, Lancs, England. Read Obituary
Anniversary:5th anniversary of the death of P. Anthony Bex (ZIM) (95) d. 2017 at Harare, Zimbabwe. Read Obituary
Birthday:26th birthday of S. Francisco João SANTOS (born this day in 1996).
Birthday:64th birthday of P. Tadeusz ÅšWIDERSKI (born this day in 1958).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1787At Milan the death of Rudiger Boscovich, among the most famous scientists in Jesuit history. His theory of the composition of matter foreshadowed in part modern atomic theory.
1866Pope Pius IX wrote a papal brief in favor of La Civilta Cattolica.
1958Joseph Bonsirven, S.J. dies Scripture scholar.
1964The Jesuits, 18 Canadian Jesuits, are expelled from Haiti.
1967Francis X. Roser, S.J. dies A scientist, he worked on the measurement of radioactivity in Brazil.
1977Calvert Alexander dies. Editor of Jesuit Missions.
2000Richard McCormick, S.J. dies, age 77. Taught at seminaries, wrote ‘Notes on Moral Theology’ for Theological Studies, and many books on moral theology and medical ethics.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2022

Dominical Letter  b
Golden Number  9
Epact  xxvii
Solar Cycle 15
Letter of the Martyrology H
Roman Year of Indiction 15
Julian Period Year 6735
Years since the confirmation of the Society 482
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  466
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 1
Sunday Readings  Cycle  C
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 17 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    24 April