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November 2021

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: People who suffer from depression (Watch video(Read Reflection)
"We pray that people who suffer from depression or burn-out will find support and a light that opens them up to life."

19 Friday
  greenFriday of the thirty-third week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle I [501] 1 Macc 4:36-37, 52-59; 1 Chr 29:10bcd, 11abc, 11d-12a, 12bcd; Luke 19:45-48.
 Hours of the day.
[RM]Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Obadiah, prophet (cf. Ob. 1) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:76th anniversary of the death of F. Joseph Lindner (79) d. 1945 at Triashill, Chishawasha, S Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:32nd anniversary of the death of P. Henry Wardale (61) d. 1989 at Harare, Zimbabwe. Read Obituary
Anniversary:1st anniversary of the death of F. James Lee (UWE) (95) d. 2020 at Los Gatos, CA, USA. Read Obituary

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1587The second translation of the body of St. Ignatius. It is moved to the floor of the sanctuary of the Gesu and remains there for 35 years.
1696According to the provisions of the brief signed by Innocent X, a general congregation had to assemble again nine years after the one that elected Father General Tirso Gonzalez in 1687. Accordingly, the 14th General Congregation met, convoked by the General. Among the twenty-nine decrees, the General Congregation again voted to try to have the nine-year rule for congregations abolished; and again failed to attain its goal
1730Frantisek Retz is elected General Superior in the 16th General Congregation.
1775At Rome, Fr. Lorenzo Ricci, imprisoned in Castel Sant’Angelo, five days before his death there read a solemn public protestation of the Society’s innocence of the crimes imputed to it at the Suppression.
1830Pierre Cazelles, S.J. is named first superior of the French Jesuit mission in Canada. He sails from Bordeaux.
1910The oath against modernism is taken at the Curia.
1942The death of Servant of God Joseph Mark Figueroa, a brother who served as porter of the Jesuit college in Santa Fe, Argentina, for 54 years; his profound love of God touched the whole city.
1982Edward J. Dunne, S.J. dies. Writer, Jesuits in China.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2021

Dominical Letter  c
Golden Number  8
Epact  xvi
Solar Cycle 14
Letter of the Martyrology r
Roman Year of Indiction 14
Julian Period Year 6734
Years since the confirmation of the Society 481
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  465
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 0
Sunday Readings  Cycle  B
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 4 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    2 May