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October 2025

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For collaboration between different religious traditions (Watch video) (Read Reflection)
"Let us pray that believers in different religious traditions might work together to defend and promote peace, justice and human fraternity."

Last Quarter

13 Monday

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Monday of the twenty-eighth week.

Mass of the day.

Cycle I

[467] Rom 1:1-7; Ps 98:1bcde, 2-3ab, 3cd-4; Luke 11:29-32.

Hours of the day.

Anniversary:

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

Anniversary:

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

Anniversary:

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

Birthday:

33^rd birthday of NF. Michael MESA (born this day in 1992).

Birthday:

54^th 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 GesĂą Nuovo.

1990

The celebration at the Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome opens the Ignatian Year.

VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2025

Dominical Letter	e
Golden Number	12
Epact	*
Solar Cycle	18
Letter of the Martyrology	P
Roman Year of Indiction	3
Julian Period	Year 6738
Years since the confirmation of the Society	485
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius	469
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province	4
Sunday Readings	Cycle C
Weekday Readings	Cycle I
Gregorian Easter	20 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter	20 April