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February 2023

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For parishes (Watch video(Read Reflection)
"Let us pray that parishes, placing communion at the centre, may increasingly become communities of faith, fraternity, and welcome towards those most in need."

16 Thursday
 greenThursday of the sixth week in Ordinary Time.
 Mass ad lib.
Cycle I [338] Gen 9:1-13; Ps 102:16-18, 19-21, 29, 22-23; Mark 8:27-33.
 Hours of the day.
Anniversary:88th anniversary of the death of P. Peter Dupeyron (79) d. 1935 at St Beuno's, Tremeirchion, N Wales. Read Obituary
Birthday:28th birthday of S. Casper Kudzaishe MABVUNDWI (born this day in 1995).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1624At Toledo, Fr. Juan de Mariana dies. He was a theologian and writer of a 30 volume history of Spain.
1624At Valladolid died Ven. Father Louis de Ponte, a Spaniard, justly renowned for his holiness of life and his ascetical writings.
1776In Rome the Jesuit prisoners in Castel S. Angelo were restored to liberty. Father Romberg, the German Assistant, aged eighty, expressed a wish to remain in prison.
1811At Dublin, the death of Thomas Betagh, the last survivor of the Irish Jesuits of the Old Society. When the Society was suppressed, he opened a Latin school in Dublin and became curate of St. Michael's Church there.
1953Fr. Leonard Feeney is officially excommunicated. He had been dismissed from the Society of Jesus in 1949.
1959Fidel Castro becomes the leader of Cuba. Jesuit alumnus.
2008Walter Burghardt dies, age 93. Famed preacher, patristics scholar, writer, worked for Theological Studies for 44 years as managing editor and editor.

 


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