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March 2024

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For new martyrs (Watch video(Read Reflection)
"Let us pray that those who risk their lives for the Gospel in various parts of the world might imbue the Church with their courage and missionary drive."

17 Sunday
  violetFifth Sunday of Lent.
Mass of the Sunday, or of the Third Scrutiny; Creed, Preface of Fifth Sunday (with Year "A" readings) or Lent I - II.
Yr B [35] Jer 31:31-34; Ps 51:3-4, 12-13, 14-15; Heb 5:7-9; John 12:20-33.
Yr B Alt. (from Year A) [34] Ezek 37:12-14; Ps 130:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8; Rom 8:8-11; John 11:1-45 or 11:3-7, 17, 20-27, 33b-45.
 In Year B, during the week, Year A's gospel (Jn 11:1-45) may be used [1st R: 2 Kgs 4:18b-21, 32-27; Ps 17] Lect. [250].
Hours of the Sunday.
Week 1 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:72nd anniversary of the death of P. Nicholas Ryan (65) d. 1952 at Petworth, W. Sussex, England. Read Obituary
Anniversary:67th anniversary of the death of P. Waldermarus Seidel (74) d. 1957 at Lusaka, N. Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:48th anniversary of the death of F. Andrew Mclnally (80) d. 1976 at Salisbury, Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:46th anniversary of the death of P. John Coyne (89) d. 1978 at Dublin, Ireland. Read Obituary
Birthday:63rd birthday of P. Paul MAYERESA (born this day in 1961).
Birthday:62nd birthday of P. Peter KNOX (born this day in 1962).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1545At Meliapore, Francis Xavier came on pilgrimage to the tomb of St. Thomas the Apostle.
1581Fr. Alessandro Valignani founds a Jesuit college in Japan.
1649Gabriel Lalemant, S.J. dies, one of the martyrs of North America. He dies one day after Jean de Brebeuf.
1652Fr. Goswin Nickel is elected General in succession to Fr. Gottifredi, who died six weeks after his election.
1667At Paris, the death of Felipe Labbe who wrote a 17 volume collection of the decrees of Church Councils.
1780The ambassadors of France, Spain, and Portugal try in vain to force Pope Pius IV to confirm the brief of Suppression and to excommunicate the Jesuits in Russia.
1865As Japan opens up, Fr. Pelitjean discovers 50,000 Catholics who had kept the faith for 200 years with no priest, but only baptism.

 


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