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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."

16 Saturday
 greenSaturday of the first week in Ordinary Time.
 Mass ad lib.
Cycle I [310] Heb 4:12-16; Ps 19:8, 9 10, 15; Mark 2:13-17.
 Hours of the day.
  white   greenSaturday Memorial of the Blessed Virgin MaryOptional

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1554St. Ignatius manifests the desire, if the Society allows, to go to Africa and work on the mission he established there.
1656At Meliapore died Father Robert de Nobili, nephew of Cardinal Bellarmine. Sent to the Madura Mission, he learned to speak three languages and for 45 years labored with great fruit among the Brahmins of the highest caste.
1679In Wales Fr. Ignatius Price, pursued for alleged complicity in the Titus Oates plot, dies of exhaustion and exposure to the cold.
1860At Calcutta, Belgian Jesuits opened St. Francis Xavier College.
1987Robert F. Hartnett, S.J. from Chicago, was editor of America magazine. January 17

 


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