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August 2023

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For World Youth Day (Watch video(Read Reflection)
"Let us pray that the World Youth Day in Lisbon will help young people to set out on the journey, witnessing to the Gospel with their own lives."

14 Monday
  redSt Maximillian Mary Kolbe, priest and martyr
Mass of the memorial; preface of the weekday, or of the saint.
Cycle I [413] Deut 10:12-22; Ps 147:12-13, 14-15, 19-20; Matt 17:22-27.
Hours of the Memorial.
Common of Martyrs, or Common of Pastors
Readings from the Common of Saints: [620A] Wis 3:1-9, or 1 John 3:14-18; Ps 116:10-11, 12-13, 16ac-17; John 15:12-16.
Anniversary:49th anniversary of the death of P. Terence Filby (62) d. 1974 at Salisbury, Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:33rd anniversary of the death of P. Trevor Paine (83) d. 1990 at Harare, Zimbabwe. Read Obituary
Anniversary:24th anniversary of the death of P. Shaun Curran (75) d. 1999 at Dublin, Ireland. Read Obituary
Anniversary:10th anniversary of the death of F. Davy Byrne (HIB) (78) d. 2013 at Dublin, Ireland. Read Obituary
Birthday:62nd birthday of P. Antony X. SAHAYA (born this day in 1961).
Birthday:38th birthday of S. Mapeza P. MASELECHI (born this day in 1985).
Birthday:48th birthday of P. Russell POLLITT (born this day in 1975).
Jubilee:Ruby Jubilee of P. O. Kenneth JOHNSON who celebrates 40 years in the Society today.

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1599Letter from Father Claude Acquaviva on the use of the Spiritual Exercises.
1610Fr. General forbids Jesuits to discuss the book of Father Mariana, S.J. according to which kings or tyrants might be assassinated.
1618The father of John Berchmans is ordained a priest. His son John was still in the novitiate.
1794Pius VI signed the Bull, Auctorem Fidei in defense of devotion to the Sacred Heart. The Jansenist Synod of Pistoia is there condemned.
1812Arrival at Polosk, in White Russia, of Napoleon I and his army; plunder of the Society’s property, violation of the Generals’ tombs.
1936The deaths of Servants of God Joachim Valentí, Louis Boguñá, and Joseph Vergés, martyrs of the Spanish Civil War, killed by machine gun fire the day after their arrests.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2023

Dominical Letter  A
Golden Number  10
Epact  viii
Solar Cycle 16
Letter of the Martyrology h
Roman Year of Indiction 1
Julian Period Year 6736
Years since the confirmation of the Society 483
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  467
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 2
Sunday Readings  Cycle  A
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 9 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    16 April