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October 2023

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the Synod (Watch video(Read Reflection)
"Let us pray for the Church, that she may adopt listening and dialogue as a style of life at every level, allowing herself to be guided by the Holy Spirit towards the world’s peripheries."

13 Friday
  greenFriday of the twenty-seventh week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle I [465] Joel 1:13-15; 2:1-2; Ps 9:2-3, 6+16, 8-9; Luke 11:15-26.
 Hours of the day.
Anniversary:54th anniversary of the death of P. Herbert Preston (72) d. 1969 at Salisbury, Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:19th anniversary of the death of P. Christopher Farwell (94) d. 2004 at London, England. Read Obituary
Anniversary:3rd anniversary of the death of P. Emmanuel Mumba (ZAM) (52) d. 2020 at Lusaka, Zambia. Read Obituary
Birthday:31st birthday of NF. Michael MESA (born this day in 1992).
Birthday:52nd 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 GesĂą Nuovo.
1990The celebration at the Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome opens the Ignatian Year.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2023

Dominical Letter  A
Golden Number  10
Epact  viii
Solar Cycle 16
Letter of the Martyrology h
Roman Year of Indiction 1
Julian Period Year 6736
Years since the confirmation of the Society 483
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  467
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 2
Sunday Readings  Cycle  A
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 9 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    16 April