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January 2028

2 Sunday
 whiteThe Epiphany of the LordSolemnity
Mass of the Vigil or of the Solemnity; Gloria, Creed.
 [20] Is 60:1-6; Ps 72:1-2, 7-8, 10-11, 12-13; Eph 3:2-3a, 5-6; Matt 2:1-12.
The Solemn Proclamation of the Date of Easter and the other major dates is encouraged (DPPL, n. 118). It is read by the deacon or cantor immediately after the Gospel. See Appendix I (below).
Preface of Epiphany; EuchPr I Communicantes.
Hours of the Solemnity. Te Deum.
On weekdays between Epiphany and Baptism, Week 2 of the Psalter.
[RM]Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Abel (cf. Gn 4:4, Mt. 23:34–35) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:56th anniversary of the death of P. Joel Jordan (34) d. 1972 at Portland, USA. Read Obituary
Anniversary:16th anniversary of the death of P. John McAuley (89) d. 2012 at Dublin, Ireland. Read Obituary

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1554The husband of Princess Juana dies. She was 19, and, under the alias of Mateo Sanchez would soon become a Jesuit scholastic.
1619At Rome, St. John Berchmans and Bartholomew Penneman, his companion scholastic from Belgium, entered the Roman College.
1726Domenico Zipoli, S.J. dies of tuberculosis. He was a composer in the Jesuit Reductions. He died before his ordination, which was delayed because no bishop was near.
1848At Rome, as Pius IX was returning to the Quirinal, angry shouts were raised, "Death to the Jesuits." The Pope fainted in his carriage.
1922Formal opening of Weston College as a House of Studies.
1953Pope Pius XII gives permission to St. Louis University President Paul Reinert to name the new library in his honor.
1983Cy Schommer, S.J., violinist, dies.
1983Pope John Paul II reveals his intention to make Carlo Martini, S.J. and Henri deLubac, S.J. cardinals. There have been 18 Jesuit cardinals.
1987The end of a five day meeting of Jesuit Islamicists in Cairo.
1993Victor Yanitelli dies President of St. Peter's College, 1963-80, and parochial vicar. The homilist at his funeral said: "When I die, I want to be judged by Vic rather than by Jesus Christ."

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2028

Dominical Letter  b A
Golden Number  15
Epact  iii
Solar Cycle 21
Letter of the Martyrology c
Roman Year of Indiction 6
Julian Period Year 6741
Years since the confirmation of the Society 488
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  472
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 7
Sunday Readings  Cycle  C
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 16 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    16 April