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July 2025

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For formation in discernment (Read Reflection)
"Let us pray that we might again learn how to discern, to know how to choose paths of life and reject everything that leads us away from Christ and the Gospel."

18 Friday
  greenFriday of the fifteenth week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle I [393] Exod 11:10-12:14; Ps 116:12-13, 15-16, 17-18; Matt 12:1-8.
 Hours of the day.
Anniversary:57th anniversary of the death of P. Ladislaus Zabdyr (78) d. 1968 at Kasisi, Zambia. Read Obituary
Jubilee:Tin Jubilee of P. Ignatious MUNYORO who celebrates 10 years of Priesthood today.
Jubilee:Tin Jubilee of P. Courage Rodwell BAKASA who celebrates 10 years of Priesthood today.

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 2025

Dominical Letter  e
Golden Number  12
Epact  *
Solar Cycle 18
Letter of the Martyrology P
Roman Year of Indiction 3
Julian Period Year 6738
Years since the confirmation of the Society 485
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  469
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 4
Sunday Readings  Cycle  C
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 20 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    20 April