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October 2022

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For a Church open to everyone (Watch video(Read Reflection)
"We pray for the Church; ever faithful to, and courageous in preaching the Gospel, may the Church be a community of solidarity, fraternity and welcome, always living in an atmosphere of synodality."

13 Thursday
  greenThursday of the twenty-eighth week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle II [470] Eph 1:1-10; Ps 98:1, 2-3ab, 3cd-4, 5-6; Luke 11:47-54.
 Hours of the day.
Anniversary:53rd anniversary of the death of P. Herbert Preston (72) d. 1969 at Salisbury, Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:18th anniversary of the death of P. Christopher Farwell (94) d. 2004 at London, England. Read Obituary
Anniversary:2nd anniversary of the death of P. Emmanuel Mumba (ZAM) (52) d. 2020 at Lusaka, Zambia. Read Obituary
Birthday:30th birthday of NF. Michael MESA (born this day in 1992).
Birthday:51st 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 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