SAP Jesuit Seal ONLINE LITURGICAL CALENDAR
Province of Southern Africa (SAP)
of the Society of Jesus

 
SAP JESUIT DAILY ORDO
 

Yesterday | Today | Tomorrow


February 2053

17 Monday
 greenMonday of the sixth week in Ordinary Time.
 Mass ad lib.
Cycle I [335] Gen 4:1-15, 25; Ps 50:1, 8, 16-17, 20-21; Mark 8:11-13.
 Hours of the day.
  whiteThe Seven Holy Founders of the Servite order
Common of Holy Men and Women: For Religious
(Readings from the Common of Saints: [533] Rom 8:26-30 (#740.1); Ps 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9, 10-11 (#739.5); Matt 19:27-29 (#742.9).
Optional

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1553Xavier's coffin is opened and his body is found incorrupt, seventy- seven days after death.
1673Moliere, age 51, dies in Paris, hours after playing the leading role in his play, the Imaginary Invalid. Jesuit Alumnus.
1832Jesuits returned to Portugal, where one of their earliest tasks was to prepare and preside at the services for the as-yet unburied body of Pombal, the man who had banished the Society from Portugal in 1759.
1900The Scholasticate at Grand Coteau, LA burns and is left in ashes.
1970Augustine Ellard, S.J. dies One of the three founders of Review for Religious.
1978Georgetown University confers a degree on Archbishop Oscar Romero in the Cathedral of San Salvador, for his leadership for justice and human rights. He will die a martyr for justice.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2053

Dominical Letter  e
Golden Number  2
Epact  x
Solar Cycle 18
Letter of the Martyrology k
Roman Year of Indiction 1
Julian Period Year 6766
Years since the confirmation of the Society 513
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  497
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 32
Sunday Readings  Cycle  A
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 6 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    13 April