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February 2024

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the terminally ill (Watch video(Read Reflection)
"Let us pray that the sick who are in the final stages of life, and their families, receive the necessary medical and human care and accompaniment."

19 Monday
  violetMonday in the First Week of Lent
Mass of the day. Preface of Lent I - IV
 [224] Lev 19:1-2, 11-18; Ps 19:8, 9, 10, 15; Matt 25:31-46.
Hours of the day.
Anniversary:117th anniversary of the death of P. Charles Lonergan (45) d. 1907 at Dunbrody, RSA. Read Obituary
Anniversary:49th anniversary of the death of F. Thomas Clayton (78) d. 1975 at Stonyhurst, Lancs, England. Read Obituary

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1543Pope Paul III signs a papal bill establishing a confraternity, "Compagnia della grazia," to run the House of St. Martha for wayward women.
1581The election of Father Claude Acquaviva as 5th General in the Fourth General Congregation. He was only 37 years of age, and a Jesuit for only l4 years. He was general under 8 popes. He had been a fellow novice with St. Stanislaus.
1803At. St. Inigo's, Maryland, Fr. James Walton died. He entered the Society in 1757, was sent to Maryland in 1766 and labored for 36 years. During the Suppression, fully confident that the Society would one day be restored, he faithfully guarded the property of the Society which had been invested chiefly in his name.
1906George Tyrell, modernist, theologian, leaves the Society of Jesus.
1984Fr. General honors Br. Joseph Auger at dinner table, on his 75th birthday and almost 50 years of service at the Curia under four Generals.
1984The death of Fr. Nikolaus Ory, scholar. He was the unifier and leader of the exiled, dispersed Hungarian priests, Unio Cleri Hungarici.
2009Letter of Fr. Nicolas, "The Universal Vocation of the Jesuit."
2019Letter on the Universal Apostolic Preferences of the Society of Jesus - 2019-2029. From Fr. Sosa

 


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