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January 2022

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For true human fraternity (Watch video(Read Reflection)
"We pray for all those suffering from religious discrimination and persecution; may their own rights and dignity be recognized, which originate from being brothers and sisters in the human family."

13 Thursday
 greenThursday of the first week in Ordinary Time.
 Mass ad lib.
Cycle II [308] 1 Sam 4:1-11; Ps 44:10-11, 14-15, 25-26; Mark 1:40-45.
 Hours of the day.
  whiteSt Hilary, bishop and doctor of the Church
Common of Pastors, or Common of Doctors of the Church
(Readings from the Common of Saints: [512] 1 John 2:18-25; Ps 110:1, 2, 3, 4 (#721.7); Matt 5:13-19 (#730.1).
Optional
Anniversary:85th anniversary of the death of P. John Gillooly (40) d. 1937 at Port Elizabeth, RSA. Read Obituary
Anniversary:10th anniversary of the death of P. John Fitzgerald (91) d. 2012 at Dublin, Ireland. Read Obituary

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1552In Rome, teachers jealous of the success of the first school opened by the Jesuits invaded the premises and abused the Jesuits teaching there.
1776Jesuits in White Russia wrote to Rome asking what to do since they were forbidden by the Empress Catherine to comply with the Brief of Suppression.
1883At Kaltern in Tyrol, died Father Joseph Kleutgen, a theologian, a victim with Father Lezziroli of an unfortunate misunderstanding, both being suspended because as extraordinary confessors, it was said they had not prevented the nuns of S. Ambrogio from honoring their deceased Superioress as a Saint.
1891Miguel Augustin Pro, S.J. is born.
1941James Joyce dies, age 58. Jesuit alumnus.
1944John Hurley, S.J. and other Jesuits enter Santo Tomas internment camp in the Philippines after living at the Ateneo under Japanese guards.

 


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