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June 2022

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For families (Watch video(Read Reflection)
"We pray for Christian families around the world; may they embody and experience unconditional love and advance in holiness in their daily lives."

12 Sunday
  whiteThe Most Holy Trinity
Texts found in Missal and Lit. of the Hours after propers for Ordinary Time.
Solemnity
Yr C [166] Prov 8:22-31; Ps 8:4-5, 6-7, 8-9; Rom 5:1-5; John 16:12-15.
Hours of the Solemnity. Te Deum. At Evening Prayer II, double alleluia at dismissal
Anniversary:131st anniversary of the death of F. José da Silva (32) d. 1891 at Boroma, Portuguese Eastern Africa. Read Obituary
Anniversary:14th anniversary of the death of F. Francis Fitsimmons (75) d. 2008 at Boscombe, England. Read Obituary

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1540The arrival of Xavier at Lisbon on his way to India. Though he passed near his father's castle at Xavier, he would not call on his relatives.
1575Death of Father Castaneda, "who though Rector for many years, was told by the Provincial, Father Bustamante, to go and work in the kitchen. He cheerfully obeyed, and helped the cook for many months."
1611Jesuit Fathers Biard and Masse land at Annapolis in Nova Scotia. They are the first French Jesuits in North America.
1845Pope Gregory XVI refused the demand of the French government that the French Jesuits should be secularized and their houses closed.
1868Fr. Clement Boulanger dies. He was superior of the French Jesuits in Canada. He re-established the mission there. He was an official visitor to the U.S.A. and one of the founders of Fordham University.
1928A negative response of Father General Ledochowski on intercollegiate sports at Jesuit colleges. Non placet. He fears loss of study time, and too much travel involved.
1954Joseph Pignatelli is canonized.

 


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