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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 worldā€™s peripheries."

New Moon

13 Friday

green

Friday 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:

54^th anniversary of the death of P. Herbert Preston (72) d. 1969 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.

Anniversary:

19^th anniversary of the death of P. Christopher Farwell (94) d. 2004 at London, England.

Anniversary:

3^rd anniversary of the death of P. Emmanuel Mumba (ZAM) (52) d. 2020 at Lusaka, Zambia.

Birthday:

31^st birthday of NF. Michael MESA (born this day in 1992).

Birthday:

52^nd birthday of P. Charles B. CHILUFYA (born this day in 1971).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1546

An Apostolic Constitution forbids a female branch of the Society of Jesus. 1572. The death of St. Francis Borgia.

1676

The 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.

1857

The death in Naples of Ven. Paul Anthony Capelloni, pastor of the GesĆ¹ Nuovo.

1990

The 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