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August 2025

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For mutual coexistence (Read Reflection)
"Let us pray that societies where coexistence seems more difficult might not succumb to the temptation of confrontation for ethnic, political, religious or ideological reasons."

12 Tuesday
  greenTuesday of the nineteenth week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle I [414] Deut 31:1-8; Deut 32:3-4ab, 7, 8, 9+12; Matt 18:1-5, 10, 12-14.
 Hours of the day.
  whiteSt Jane Frances de Chantal, religious
Common of Holy Men and Women: For Religious
Readings from the Common of Saints: [623A] Prov 31:10-13, 19-20, 30-31 (#737.11); Ps 131:1bcde, 2, 3 (#739.9); Mark 3:31-35 (#742.14).
Optional
Archdioceses of Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg, South Africa [SACBC]
   redBlessed Isidore Bakanja, MartyrOptional 
Common of Martyrs
Anniversary:76th anniversary of the death of F. Martin Kaltschmidt (80) d. 1949 at Sankt Andrä, Austria. Read Obituary
Anniversary:57th anniversary of the death of P. Casimir Kozlowski (69) d. 1968 at Lusaka, Zambia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:38th anniversary of the death of P. Bernard Collins (77) d. 1987 at Lusaka, Zambia. Read Obituary
Birthday:42nd birthday of P. Tendai Ellton MATARE (born this day in 1983).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1629At Paderborn, John Bitter, a German Scholastic, who used to serve the poor at the college gate every day, was found dead on his knees. It was revealed in an apparition that he had been freed from Purgatory at the second Mass said for his repose.
1871Expulsion of the Society from Guatemala.
1877The energetic Swiss Jesuit, Fr. Maurice Gailland died. An expert in languages, he worked in Kansas and wrote a 450 page Potawatomi dictionary and grammar.
1905Hans Urs von Balthasar born, Lucerne, Switzerland.
1977The death of Jerome D'Souza, S.J. age 79. Educator in India and in Rome. He was the first Assistant for India and East Asia, and served India at the UN.
1989Francis Sullivan, S.J. dies NY Province, Juniorate Professor of Classics.
1993President Clinton and Pope John Paul II meet at Carroll Hall on the Regis University campus.
2003Walter Ong, S.J. dies. Polymath, author on orality, culture. He had been President of the PMLA: Modern Language Association.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2025

Dominical Letter  e
Golden Number  12
Epact  *
Solar Cycle 18
Letter of the Martyrology P
Roman Year of Indiction 3
Julian Period Year 6738
Years since the confirmation of the Society 485
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  469
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 4
Sunday Readings  Cycle  C
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 20 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    20 April