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August 2047

14 Wednesday
  redSt Maximillian Mary Kolbe, priest and martyr
Mass of the memorial; preface of the weekday, or of the saint.
Cycle I [415] Deut 34:1-12; Ps 66:1-3a, 5+8, 16-17; Matt 18:15-20.
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:73rd anniversary of the death of P. Terence Filby (62) d. 1974 at Salisbury, Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:57th anniversary of the death of P. Trevor Paine (83) d. 1990 at Harare, Zimbabwe. Read Obituary
Anniversary:48th anniversary of the death of P. Shaun Curran (75) d. 1999 at Dublin, Ireland. Read Obituary
Anniversary:34th anniversary of the death of F. Davy Byrne (HIB) (78) d. 2013 at Dublin, Ireland. Read Obituary
Birthday:86th birthday of P. Antony X. SAHAYA (born this day in 1961).
Birthday:62nd birthday of S. Mapeza P. MASELECHI (born this day in 1985).
Birthday:72nd birthday of P. Russell POLLITT (born this day in 1975).

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 2047

Dominical Letter  f
Golden Number  15
Epact  iii
Solar Cycle 12
Letter of the Martyrology c
Roman Year of Indiction 10
Julian Period Year 6760
Years since the confirmation of the Society 507
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  491
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 26
Sunday Readings  Cycle  A
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 14 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    21 April