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January 2024

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the gift of diversity in the Church (Watch video) (Read Reflection)
"Let us pray that the Spirit help us recognize the gift of different charisms within the Christian community, and to discover the richness of different ritual traditions in the heart of the Catholic Church."

16 Tuesday

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Tuesday of the second week in Ordinary Time.

Mass ad lib.

Cycle II

[312] 1 Sam 16:1-13; Ps 89:20, 21-22, 27-28; Mark 2:23-28.

Hours of the day.

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1554

St. Ignatius manifests the desire, if the Society allows, to go to Africa and work on the mission he established there.

1656

At 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.

1679

In Wales Fr. Ignatius Price, pursued for alleged complicity in the Titus Oates plot, dies of exhaustion and exposure to the cold.

1860

At Calcutta, Belgian Jesuits opened St. Francis Xavier College.

1987

Robert F. Hartnett, S.J. from Chicago, was editor of America magazine. January 17

VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2024

Dominical Letter	g f
Golden Number	11
Epact	xix
Solar Cycle	17
Letter of the Martyrology	u
Roman Year of Indiction	2
Julian Period	Year 6737
Years since the confirmation of the Society	484
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius	468
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province	3
Sunday Readings	Cycle B
Weekday Readings	Cycle II
Gregorian Easter	31 March
Julian (Orthodox) Easter	5 May