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October 2023

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the Synod (Watch video(Read Reflection)
"Let us pray for the Church, that she may adopt listening and dialogue as a style of life at every level, allowing herself to be guided by the Holy Spirit towards the world’s peripheries."

2 Monday
  whiteThe Holy Guardian AngelsMemorial
Mass of the memorial; preface of the weekday, or of the saint.
Cycle I [650] Exod 23:20-23; Ps 91:1-2, 3-4ab, 4c-6, 10-11; Matt 18:1-5, 10 (Gospel proper).
[RM]Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture our Guardian angels (cf. Mt. 18:10) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:105th anniversary of the death of P. Alfred Mayer (49) d. 1918 at Petworth, W. Sussex, England. Read Obituary
Anniversary:25th anniversary of the death of P. Patrick Lewis (94) d. 1998 at Harare, Zimbabwe. Read Obituary
Birthday:51st birthday of P. Felix Kabuswe MWEWA (born this day in 1972).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1636St. Isaac Jogues rst set foot on the shores of the New World after two stormy months on the ocean.
1648In the Church of the Gesu, the Bona Mors Confraternity is founded by the 7th Fr. General, Vincent Caraffa.
1836Gregory XVI gives the direction and government of the Pontificial Urban College of the Propagation of the Faith to the Society of Jesus.
1892Father Louis Martin is elected General at Loyola, Spain.
1912Blessed John Beyzym, S.J. missionary from the Ukraine to work with the lepers in Madagascar, died on this day.
1954The Cornerstone is laid for Loyola Seminary, Shrub Oak, NY.
1960Edward Garesche, S.J. dies. He founded the "Queen's Work" and Catholic Medical Mission Board, which he directed from 1929 to 1960.
1964Fr. General Janssens suffers a stroke, and dies three days later.
1996Loyola Jesuit College, Abuja, Nigeria opens. Premier College.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2023

Dominical Letter  A
Golden Number  10
Epact  viii
Solar Cycle 16
Letter of the Martyrology h
Roman Year of Indiction 1
Julian Period Year 6736
Years since the confirmation of the Society 483
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  467
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 2
Sunday Readings  Cycle  A
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 9 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    16 April