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March 2058

17 Sunday
  violetThird Sunday of Lent
Mass of the Sunday, or of the First Scrutiny; Creed, Preface of Third Sunday (with Year "A" readings) or Lent I - II.
Yr C [30] Exod 3:1-8a, 13-15; Ps 103:1-2, 3-4, 6-7, 8+11; 1 Cor 10:1-6, 10-12; Luke 13:1-9.
Yr C Alt. (from Year A) [28] Exod 17:3-7; Ps 95:1-2, 6-7, 8-9; Rom 5:1-2, 5-8; John 4:5-42 or 4:5-15, 19b-26, 39a, 40-42.
 In Year C, during the week, Year A's gospel (Jn 4:5-42) may be used [1st R: Ex 17:1-7, Ps 95] Lect. [236].
Hours of the Sunday.
Week 3 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:106th anniversary of the death of P. Nicholas Ryan (65) d. 1952 at Petworth, W. Sussex, England. Read Obituary
Anniversary:101st anniversary of the death of P. Waldermarus Seidel (74) d. 1957 at Lusaka, N. Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:82nd anniversary of the death of F. Andrew Mclnally (80) d. 1976 at Salisbury, Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:80th anniversary of the death of P. John Coyne (89) d. 1978 at Dublin, Ireland. Read Obituary
Birthday:97th birthday of P. Paul MAYERESA (born this day in 1961).
Birthday:96th 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 2058

Dominical Letter  f
Golden Number  7
Epact  v
Solar Cycle 23
Letter of the Martyrology e
Roman Year of Indiction 6
Julian Period Year 6771
Years since the confirmation of the Society 518
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  502
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 37
Sunday Readings  Cycle  C
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 14 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    14 April