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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."

15 Friday
 greenFriday of the first week in Ordinary Time.
 Mass ad lib.
Cycle I [309] Heb 4:1-5, 11; Ps 78:3, 4, 6-7, 8; Mark 2:1-12.
 Hours of the day.
Anniversary:96th anniversary of the death of F. James Gobert (82) d. 1925 at Tronchiennes, Belgium. Read Obituary
Anniversary:63rd anniversary of the death of P. Cuthbert Meyer (89) d. 1958 at St Beuno's, Tremeirchion, N Wales. Read Obituary
Anniversary:43rd anniversary of the death of P. Desmond Donovan (50) d. 1978 at Makumbi, Republic of Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Death:Death of P. Michael J. Kelly (ZAM) (91) d. 2021 at Lusaka, Zambia. Read Obituary
Birthday:31st birthday of S. Moolisa S. TLALI (born this day in 1990).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1551St. Francis Borgia wrote to the Emperor Charles V announcing his intention to enter the Society of Jesus and asking leave to resign his dukedom in favor of his eldest son, the Marquis de Lombay.
1552At Rome, while the boys of the newly opened First Jesuit School, under the Capitol, were at Mass, two women entered the Church, shouting and accusing the Jesuits of robbing mothers of their children.
1623At Louvain died Father Leonard Lessius, SJ. Age 69. 1624. At Valladolid died Ven. Father Louis de Ponte, a Spaniard, renowned for his holiness of life and ascetical works. 1776. In Rome the Jesuit prisoners in Castel S. Angelo were restored to liberty. Father Romberg, the German Assistant,aged 80, expressed a wish to remain in prison.
1888John Berchmans, Alphonsus Rodriguez, Peter Claver are canonized.
1901In the French Parliament, a Bill was introduced against Religious Congregations. The Society had to transfer its novitiates and Scholasticates abroad.
1906The birth of Gustave Weigel, theologian and ecumenist.
1937The Sacred Heart Program aired on radio for the first time, WEW, station of St. Louis University.
1942The Volume I, Number I issue of Review for Religious makes its debut. It originated at St. Mary’s College, Kansas.
1955The death of Daniel Lord, popular writer, U.S. director of the Sodality, founder of the Summer School of Catholic Action, and editor of The Queen's Work.
1978Fr. Desmond Donovan, S.J. teacher, disappears in Zimbabwe.
1987Jesuits are forced to close their school in southern Sudan because of civil war.
2008Eduardo Hontiveras, S.J. dies age 84. Philippine Jesuit musician and liturgist.

 


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