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January 2028

16 Sunday
 greenSecond Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mass of the Sunday; Gloria, Creed, Pref. of Sunday.
Yr C [66] Isa 62:1-5; Ps 96:1-2a, 2b-3, 7-8, 9-10; 1 Cor 12:4-11; John 2:1-12.
 Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum.
Week 2 of the Psalter.

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 2028

Dominical Letter  b A
Golden Number  15
Epact  iii
Solar Cycle 21
Letter of the Martyrology c
Roman Year of Indiction 6
Julian Period Year 6741
Years since the confirmation of the Society 488
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  472
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 7
Sunday Readings  Cycle  C
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 16 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    16 April