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November 2025

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the prevention of suicide (Read Reflection)
"Let us pray that those who are tempted to commit suicide might find the support, care and love they need in their community, and be open to the beauty of life."

15 Saturday
  greenSaturday of the thirty-second week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle I [496] Wis 18:14-16; 19:6-9; Ps 105:2-3, 36-37, 42-43; Luke 18:1-8.
 Hours of the day.
  whiteSt Albert the Great, bishop and doctor of the Church
Common of Pastors, or Common of Doctors of the Church
Readings from the Common of Saints: [675] Sir 15:1-6 (#725.3); Ps 119:9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 (#727.3); Matt 13:47-52 (#730.3).
Optional
  white   greenSaturday Memorial of the Blessed Virgin MaryOptional
Anniversary:105th anniversary of the death of P. Basil Padreddi (51) d. 1920 at Grahamstown, RSA. Read Obituary
Anniversary:10th anniversary of the death of P. Anthony Geoghegan (84) d. 2015 at Lusaka, Zambia. Read Obituary
Birthday:30th birthday of S. David MWANZA (born this day in 1995).
Birthday:84th birthday of P. Patrick MAKAKA (born this day in 1941).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1628St. Roch Gonzalez, S.J. an American Indian. is martyred, in Uruguay, with Alphonsus Rodriguez, S.J. He is one of the architects of the Jesuit Reductions in Uruguay and Paraguay. His feast is November 16th.
1811In Rome, the death of Joseph Pignatelli, a Spaniard of noble birth, a golden link between the Old and New Society. He died three years before the Restoration.
1856Herbert Thurston is born. Prolific author on saints and spiritualists and spirituality..
1948Louis Twomey inaugurates Christ’s Blueprint for the South, intended originally for social consciousness raising among Jesuits.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2025

Dominical Letter  e
Golden Number  12
Epact  *
Solar Cycle 18
Letter of the Martyrology P
Roman Year of Indiction 3
Julian Period Year 6738
Years since the confirmation of the Society 485
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  469
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 4
Sunday Readings  Cycle  C
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 20 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    20 April