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October 2024

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For a shared mission (Watch video(Read Reflection)
"Let us pray that the Church continue to sustain a synodal lifestyle in every way, as a sign of co-responsibility, promoting the participation, communion and mission shared by priests, religious and laity."

13 Sunday
  greenTwenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mass of the Sunday; gloria, creed.
Yr B [143] Wis 7:7-11; Ps 90:12-13, 14-15, 16-17; Heb 4:12-13; Mark 10:17-30 or 10:17-27.
 Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum.
Week 4 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:55th anniversary of the death of P. Herbert Preston (72) d. 1969 at Salisbury, Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:20th anniversary of the death of P. Christopher Farwell (94) d. 2004 at London, England. Read Obituary
Anniversary:4th anniversary of the death of P. Emmanuel Mumba (ZAM) (52) d. 2020 at Lusaka, Zambia. Read Obituary
Birthday:32nd birthday of NF. Michael MESA (born this day in 1992).
Birthday:53rd 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 2024

Dominical Letter  g f
Golden Number  11
Epact  xix
Solar Cycle 17
Letter of the Martyrology u
Roman Year of Indiction 2
Julian Period Year 6737
Years since the confirmation of the Society 484
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  468
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 3
Sunday Readings  Cycle  B
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 31 March
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    5 May