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February 2021

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: Violence against women (Watch video(Read Reflection)
"We pray for women who are victims of violence, that they may be protected by society and have their sufferings considered and heeded."

13 Saturday
 greenSaturday of the fifth week in Ordinary Time.
 Mass ad lib.
Cycle I [334] Gen 3:9-24; Ps 90:2, 3-4abc, 5-6, 12-13; Mark 8:1-10.
 Hours of the day.
  white   greenSaturday Memorial of the Blessed Virgin MaryOptional
Anniversary:19th anniversary of the death of P. Victor Riederer (81) d. 2002 at West Wickham, Kent, England. Read Obituary
Anniversary:18th anniversary of the death of P. Anthony Davis (83) d. 2003 at Harare, Zimbabwe. Read Obituary
Birthday:63rd birthday of P. Andrzej LEÅšNIARA (born this day in 1958).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1557Father Andrew Oviedo, recently consecrated bishop and Patriarch of Ethiopia set sail from Goa for his new see. His mission to "Prester John" was a special interest of St. Ignatius.
1562A decree of the Parliament of Paris gives the Society legal existence in France, albeit with severe limitations.
1585Alfonsus Salmeron, S.J. dies. He was the youngest of the first companions of Ignatius, a preacher, theologian, and envoy to Ireland.
1787At Milan died Father Roger Boscovich, an illustrious mathematician, scientist, and astronomer. At Paris he was appointed "Directeur de la Marine". He was among the most famous scientists in Jesuit history. His theory of the composition of matter foreshadowed in part modern atomic theory, hinting at a field theory approach to physics. He is pictured on a banknote in Croatia in 1993.
1880John La Farge, S.J. is born at Newport, Rhode Island.
1946The New Orleans Province is informed that it is assigned a mission in Sri Lanka. The decree was dated March 12.
1949The two top floors of the theologians house at Milltown Park go up in flames, and one Jesuit theologian is killed.
1956Br. Claude Ramaz, S.J. dies. He served as an administrator and printer, at the Messenger of the Sacred Heart from 1894 to 1946. He was a pioneer in color printing for Catholic magazines, and a promoter of devotion to the Sacred Heart.
1999The death of Robert O’Connell, of Fordham, philosopher and scholar, writer on St. Augustine. (Age 74)
2019Death of Daniel Flaherty, collaboration on writings of Walter Ciszek and Fr. Arrupe- worked at American magazine, was provincial.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2021

Dominical Letter  c
Golden Number  8
Epact  xvi
Solar Cycle 14
Letter of the Martyrology r
Roman Year of Indiction 14
Julian Period Year 6734
Years since the confirmation of the Society 481
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  465
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 0
Sunday Readings  Cycle  B
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 4 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    2 May