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January 2021

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: Human fraternity (Watch video(Read Reflection)
"May the Lord give us the grace to live in full fellowship with our brothers and sisters of other religions, praying for one another, open to all."

14 Thursday
 greenThursday of the first week in Ordinary Time.
 Mass ad lib.
Cycle I [308] Heb 3:7-14; Ps 95:6-7, 8-9, 10-11; Mark 1:40-45.
 Hours of the day.
Archdiocese of Lusaka, Zambia
   whiteInfant Jesus of Prague, Patronal Feast of the ArchdioceseFeast
Mass of the Feast, Gloria, proper readings [983-988], Preface of Christmas.
Hours of Exaltation of the Holy Cross (Sept 14), Te Deum.
Anniversary:29th anniversary of the death of P. Francis Barr (82) d. 1992 at Harare, Zimbabwe. Read Obituary
Anniversary:4th anniversary of the death of P. Stephen Redmond (HIB) (98) d. 2017 at Dublin, Ireland. Read Obituary
Anniversary:4th anniversary of the death of P. Thomas McGivern (ZAM) (89) d. 2017 at Dublin, Ireland. Read Obituary
Birthday:42nd birthday of P. Matthew CHARLESWORTH (born this day in 1979).
Birthday:33rd birthday of P. Laissone Evaristo MATIAS (born this day in 1988).
Birthday:46th birthday of P. Elpidius KALYEPE (born this day in 1975).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1547At London the death of Henry VIII, age 56, in the 36th year of his reign. It was during his reign that Fathers Salmeron and Broet went as Papal Nuncios to Scotland and Ireland.
1703A number of severe earthquakes occurred in and around Rome from this day until February 2nd. At the request of the Pope the Jesuits worked in 17 different churches in the city giving almost 30 "missions."
1768The Society of Jesus was banished from the Duchy of Parma, the result of pressure exercised on the Grand Duke by Choiseul of France.
1970Emmanuel de Breuvery, S.J. dies. French Jesuit, he was a friend of Teilhard, and an economist at the UN from l952-70.
1972President of Zaire, Mobutu, gives the "order of the Leopard" to P. Boka, S.J., author of the Zairean national anthem.
1989The death of John Ford, S.J. Moral theologian, teacher, at Weston College and Boston College, age 86. He served on the papal commission on birth control.
2008Fr. General Kolvenbach resigns/retires. His resignation is accepted by GC 35. He thanks the CG for the "elegant way you have found to fire me."

 


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