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September 2022

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the abolition of the death penalty (Watch video(Read Reflection)
"We pray that the death penalty, which attacks the dignity of the human person, may be legally abolished in every country."

13 Tuesday
  whiteSt John Chrysostom, bishop and doctor of the Church
Mass of the memorial; preface of the weekday, or of the saint.
Cycle II [444] 1 Cor 12:12-14, 27-31a; Ps 100:1b-2, 3, 4, 5; Luke 7:11-17.
Hours of the Memorial.
Common of Pastors, or Common of Doctors of the Church
Readings from the Common of Saints: [637] Eph 4:1-7, 11-13 (#722.8); Ps 40:2+4, 7-8a, 8b-9, 10 (#721.3); Mark 4:1-10, 13-20 or 4:1-9 (#730.5).
Jubilee:Platinum Jubilee of P. Wolfgang THAMM who celebrates 70 years in the Society today.
Jubilee:Coral Jubilee of P. Karl HERRMANN who celebrates 35 years in the Society today.

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1571Martyrdom of Pedro Diaz and eleven missionaries of Brazil, in waters of the Atlantic, near the Canary Islands.
1669At Paris the pamphlet Anonyme by the Jansenist Arnauld, a publication full of vile calumnies and invectives agains the Society, was burnt by the King’s order.
1773Frederick II of Prussia informs the Pope that the Jesuits will not be suppressed in Prussia, and invites Jesuits to come.
1983Peter-Hans Kolvenbach is elected the 29th Superior General at the 33rd General Congregation, age 55.
1998Cardinal Alois Grillmeier dies age 88. He was a professor at St. Georgen, Frankfurt, and wrote Christ in Christian Tradition. He was created a Cardinal on 26 November 1994.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2022

Dominical Letter  b
Golden Number  9
Epact  xxvii
Solar Cycle 15
Letter of the Martyrology H
Roman Year of Indiction 15
Julian Period Year 6735
Years since the confirmation of the Society 482
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  466
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 1
Sunday Readings  Cycle  C
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 17 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    24 April