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January 2021

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: Human fraternity (Watch video(Read Reflection)
"May the Lord give us the grace to live in full fellowship with our brothers and sisters of other religions, praying for one another, open to all."

20 Wednesday
 greenWednesday of the second week in Ordinary Time.
 Mass ad lib.
Cycle I [313] Heb 7:1-3, 15-17; Ps 110:1, 2, 3, 4; Mark 3:1-6.
 Hours of the day.
  redSt Fabian, pope and martyr
Common of Martyrs, or Common of Pastors: For a Pope
(Readings from the Common of Saints: [514] 1 Peter 5:1-4 (#722.13); Ps 40:2+4ab, 7-8a, 8b-9, 10 (#721.3); John 21:15-17 (#724.12).
Optional
  redSt Sebastian, martyr
Common of Martyrs
(Readings from the Common of Saints: [515] 1 Peter 3:14-17 (#716.8); Ps 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9 (#715.2); Matt 10:28-33 (#718.2).
Optional
Archdioceses of Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg, South Africa [SACBC]
   whiteBl Cyprian Michael Tansi, PriestOptional 
Common of Pastors
Anniversary:72nd anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Moreau (85) d. 1949 at Chikuni, N. Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:72nd anniversary of the death of P. Philip Beisly (53) d. 1949 at Salisbury, Rhodesia. Read Obituary

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1537The nine first companions of Ignatius arrive in Venice and meet him there. "With great delight of soul, they found Ignatius awaiting them", according to S. Rodrigues.
1606The death of Alexander Valignani at Macao. For 33 years he held the offices of Provincial and Visitor of the Indies. He devised the far-seeing missionary policies to be followed there by Ricci and subsequent Jesuits.
1775Andre-Marie Ampere was born. A physicist, he founded the science of electrodynamics to measure electricity, later known as a galvanometer. He was an alumnus of a Jesuit School during the time of the Suppression.
1932The first number of the Archivum Historicum Societatis Jesu appears.
1945Carl Hausmann,S.J. dies of starvation and exposure on a Japanese prison ship. He was a missionary to the Philippines and a chaplain in the US Army.
1994The death of Philip Land, S.J., from Oregon, a strong advocate of social justice.
2000Robert Henle, S.J. dies Famed for Latin high school textbook series, and had been President of Georgetown University.

 


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