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September 2023

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For people living on the margins (Watch video(Read Reflection)
"Let us pray for those people on the margins of society in subhuman living conditions, that they may not be neglected by institutions and never be cast out."

15 Friday
  whiteOur Lady of Sorrows
Mass of the memorial. Sequence (Stabat Mater) optional. Gospel proper; Preface of B.V. Mary I or II.
Stabat Mater also recommended for use at the Hours.

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1622In Quito, in the college seminary of St. Louis, the Jesuits founded the University of Gregory the Great.
1627The Beatification of the Japanese martyrs, Paul Miki and companions, by Pope Urban VIII.
192737 Jesuits arrive to begin a Tertianship at Hot Springs, North Carolina. The property was given to the Jesuits by the widow of the son of President Andrew Johnson.
1946John Baptist Janssens is elected 27th Superior General, at age 57.

 


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