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October 2021

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: Missionary disciples (Watch video(Read Reflection)
"We pray that every baptized person may be engaged in evangelization, available to the mission, by being witnesses of a life that has the flavor of the Gospel."

13 Wednesday
  greenWednesday of the twenty-eighth week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle I [469] Rom 2:1-11; Ps 62:2-3, 6-7, 9; Luke 11:42-46.
 Hours of the day.
Anniversary:52nd anniversary of the death of P. Herbert Preston (72) d. 1969 at Salisbury, Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:17th anniversary of the death of P. Christopher Farwell (94) d. 2004 at London, England. Read Obituary
Anniversary:1st anniversary of the death of P. Emmanuel Mumba (ZAM) (52) d. 2020 at Lusaka, Zambia. Read Obituary
Birthday:29th birthday of NF. Michael MESA (born this day in 1992).
Birthday:50th birthday of P. Charles B. CHILUFYA (born this day in 1971).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1546An Apostolic Constitution forbids a female branch of the Society of Jesus. 1572. The death of St. Francis Borgia.
1676The arrival in London of Claude de la Colombiere, to be the chaplain and confessor of the Duchess of York, the wife of the future King James II.
1857The death in Naples of Ven. Paul Anthony Capelloni, pastor of the Gesù Nuovo.
1990The celebration at the Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome opens the Ignatian Year.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2021

Dominical Letter  c
Golden Number  8
Epact  xvi
Solar Cycle 14
Letter of the Martyrology r
Roman Year of Indiction 14
Julian Period Year 6734
Years since the confirmation of the Society 481
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  465
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 0
Sunday Readings  Cycle  B
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 4 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    2 May