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October 2055

17 Sunday
  greenTwenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mass of the Sunday; gloria, creed.
Yr C [147] Exod 17:8-13; Ps 121:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8; 2 Tim 3:14-4:2; Luke 18:1-8.
 Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum.
Week 1 of the Psalter.
[RM]Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Hosea, prophet (cf. Hos. 1:1) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:129th anniversary of the death of P. John Ryan (84) d. 1926 at Tremeirchion, N Wales. Read Obituary
Anniversary:122nd anniversary of the death of F. Joseph Hedley (87) d. 1933 at Tremeirchion, N Wales. Read Obituary
Anniversary:72nd anniversary of the death of P. Edward de Meulder (79) d. 1983 at Jamshedpur, India. Read Obituary
Anniversary:48th anniversary of the death of F. Frank Preglj (85) d. 2007 at London, England. Read Obituary
Birthday:64th birthday of S. Nobert RWODZI (born this day in 1991).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1537At Venice the Papal Nuncio published his written verdict declaring that Ignatius Loyola was innocent of all charges which had been leveled against him by his detractors.
1546The First Province of the Society is established, the Portuguese Province, with Simao Rodrigues as Provincial.
1578At S. Andrea, Rome, the entrance into the Society of Robert Southwell, aged sixteen.
1578Robert Bellarmine entered the Jesuit novitiate of Sant' Andrea in Rome at the age of 16.
1651Emmanuel Sigueira enters the novitiate of S. Andrea in Rome. He will be the first Chinese Jesuit priest.
1688Domenico Zipoli, S.J. is born. An organist at the Gesu in Rome, he was a missionary and composer in Paraguay and Argentina, in the Jesuit Reductions. He was never ordained because of the distance from an ordaining bishop.
1690St. Margaret Mary dies. St. Claude was her director.
1782Jesuits in White Russia elect Stanislaus Czerniewicz as Vicar General of the Society.
1996Richard Michael Fernando, S.J. dies scholastic, age 26,working with Jesuit Refugee Service, in Cambodia, is killed by a hand grenade thrown by a disturbed ex-student, as Richard tries to save others lives.
2002Richard McSorley, S.J. dies, age 88. Social justice and non-violence.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2055

Dominical Letter  c
Golden Number  4
Epact  ii
Solar Cycle 20
Letter of the Martyrology b
Roman Year of Indiction 3
Julian Period Year 6768
Years since the confirmation of the Society 515
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  499
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 34
Sunday Readings  Cycle  C
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 18 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    18 April