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March 2024

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For new martyrs (Watch video(Read Reflection)
"Let us pray that those who risk their lives for the Gospel in various parts of the world might imbue the Church with their courage and missionary drive."

14 Thursday
  violetThursday in the Fourth Week of Lent
Mass of the day. Preface of Lent I - IV
 [247] Exod 32:7-14; Ps 106:19-20, 21-22, 23; John 5:31-47.
Hours of the day.
Anniversary:118th anniversary of the death of F. Francisco Megens (35) d. 1906 at Zumbo, Province of Mozambique. Read Obituary
Anniversary:96th anniversary of the death of P. Stanislaus Hankiewicz (51) d. 1928 at Krakow, Poland. Read Obituary
Anniversary:18th anniversary of the death of P. Vincent Cichecki (86) d. 2006 at Lusaka, Zambia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:10th anniversary of the death of P. Leslie McKenna (90) d. 2014 at Preston, Lancs, England. Read Obituary

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1523Ignatius arrives in Rome for the first time, on Palm Sunday. Four months later he leaves for Jerusalem.
1548The arrival of the first Jesuits missioned in Africa. These Jesuits were sent by Fr. Simon Rodrigues, Provincial of Portugal, at the request of the King of Kongo supported by the King of Portugal. They landed at Pinda, and made their way two days later to Mbanza Kongo, the capital of the kingdom of Kongo. They were four in number, Frs. Jorge Vaz, Cristovao Ribeiro, Jacome Dias and a scholastic, Diego do Soveral.
1800At Venice, the election of Pope Pius VII (Cardinal Chiaramonti), a Benedictine, who in 1814 restored the Society throughout the world.
1800At Venice, the election of Pope Pius VII (Cardinal Chiaramonti), a Benedictine, who in 1814 restored the Society throughout the world.
1891The Motu Proprio of Leo XIII founds the Vatican Observatory (Specola Vaticana).
1920Missouri Province tells Fr. General it is sending six men to work in Patna, India.
1976Alban de Jerphanion (age 75) professor, is killed in Beirut, Lebanon.
1985Fr. Nicolas Kluiters, S.J. parish priest, is kidnapped in Lebanon.

 


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