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July 2023

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For a Eucharistic life (Watch video(Read Reflection)
"Let us pray that Catholics place at the centre of their lives the Eucharistic Celebration, which transforms human relationships profoundly and opens up an encounter with God and their brothers and sisters."

18 Tuesday
  greenTuesday of the fifteenth week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle I [390] Exod 2:1-15a; Ps 69:3, 14, 30-31, 33-34; Matt 11:20-24.
 Hours of the day.
Anniversary:55th anniversary of the death of P. Ladislaus Zabdyr (78) d. 1968 at Kasisi, Zambia. Read Obituary

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1613Brother Gilbert Du Thet, S.J. dies. He is the first (non-canonized) Jesuit martyr of French Canada, killed by English privateers off the Atlantic Coast.
1650Cristobal Schemer, S.J. dies founder of new solar physics, and a correspondent with Kepler and Galileo.
1650The death of Cristopher Scheiner, a physicist, astronomer and geometer who discovered sun spots independently of Galileo and created one of the ï¬rst terrestrial telescopes.
1693At Resel, in Russia died Fr. Adelbert Grabes, a great spiritual director of youth. He sent 53 to the Cistercians, 30 to the Franciscans, 12 to the Dominicans, 5 to the Basilians, 28 to the Reformed Carmelites, 12 to the Brigittines, and 117 to the Society, almost all of whom persevered.
1973Fr. Eugene Murphy died. Under his direction the Sacred Heart Hour, which Saint Louis University introduced in 1939 on its radio station WEW, became a nationwide favorite.
1985Jose Maria Velaz, S.J. dies Venezuela. Founder and promoter of Fe y Alegria, Integrated Popular Education Movement in 1955. In 1985 there were 435 centers with 270,000 students enrolled.

 


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