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June 2023

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the abolition of torture (Watch video(Read Reflection)
"Let us pray that the international community may commit itself concretely to abolish torture, guaranteeing support to victims and their families."

15 Thursday
  greenThursday of the tenth week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle I [362] 2 Cor 3:15-4:1, 3-6; Ps 85:9-10, 11-12, 12-13; Matt 5:20-26.
 Hours of the day.
[RM]Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Amos, prophet (cf. Am. 7:15) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:85th anniversary of the death of P. António Nunes (69) d. 1938 at Baía, Brazil. Read Obituary
Anniversary:64th anniversary of the death of P. Harold Burrows (82) d. 1959 at St Beuno's, Tremeirchion, N Wales. Read Obituary
Birthday:60th birthday of P. Carlos Mário SIVANO (born this day in 1963).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1564Francis Suarez entered the Novitiate, after experiencing many difficulties, having been twice rejected by the examiner on the score of feeble health and apparently insufficient talent.
1572The Mexican Province is established.
1871A female law student, P.W. Couzins, graduates from St. Louis University Law School, the first law school in the country to admit women.
1876Cardinal Franzelin was raised to the purple. 1888. Martin Darcy, S.J. is born.
1927Leonce de Grandmaison,S.J. dies Apologist, defender against Modernism. Editor of Etudes, 1908-27. He wrote a well-known life of Christ.
1956The first television presentation of the Sacred Heart program appears on KTVI in St. Louis.
1994James Dempske dies. President of Canisius College, he had been novice director and played the trumpet.

 


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