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October 2024

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For a shared mission (Watch video(Read Reflection)
"Let us pray that the Church continue to sustain a synodal lifestyle in every way, as a sign of co-responsibility, promoting the participation, communion and mission shared by priests, religious and laity."

19 Saturday
  redSts John de Brébeuf and Isaac Jogues, priests and martyrs, and comp., martyrs [SJ]
Outside SJ churches, Optional Memorial (use seasonal weekday readings)
Texts in the Jesuit Supplement. (Download Mass texts and Divine Office texts here)
Outside SJ churches, also the optional memorial of St Paul of the Cross, priest
[RM]Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Joel, prophet (cf. Jl. 2:13) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:74th anniversary of the death of P. James Crook (79) d. 1950 at St Beuno's, Tremeirchion, N Wales. Read Obituary
Anniversary:15th anniversary of the death of P. John Grummit (79) d. 2009 at Boscombe, England. Read Obituary

On this day in our Jesuit history...

de Brebeuf and Isaac Jogues, priests and martyrs, and companions, martyrs, Memorial.
1536In Paris St. Ignatius received his diploma, at age 44, as Master of Arts and Sacred Theology.
1604Aloysius Gonzaga is beatified, while his mother was still alive. 1646. Jean de la Lande, S.J. dies.Jesuit Brother, donne, companion of Isaac Joques.
1697The Milanese missionary Juan María Salvatierra arrived in California, carrying an image of the Virgin of Loreto.
1930Leopold Fonck, S.J. dies Austria. He wrote on Scripture and the life of Christ, and was the first director of the Biblical Institute in Rome.
1934Response of Fr. General Ledochowski against the abuse of taking off the cassock on mountain trips.
1936Eugenio Pacelli, Secretary of State and future Pope, visits Wernersville Novitiate with Mrs. Brady.
1952Joseph Husslein dies St. Louis. Sociologist, and expert on the social encyclicals. He founded the School of Social Service at St. Louis University and served as its Dean from 1930-37.
1975Maria Theresa Ledochowska is beatified by Pope Paul VI. She was the brother of Fr. General Vlodimir, and is called the Mother of Africa because of her missionary concern.

 


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