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March 2023

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For victims of abuse (Watch video(Read Reflection)
"Let us pray for those who have suffered harm from members of the ecclesial community, that they may find within the Church herself a concrete response to their pain and suffering."

20 Monday
  whiteSt Joseph, Husband of MarySolemnity
Mass of the solemnity; gloria, creed; preface of St Joseph.
Other masses are prohibited, but the funeral mass is allowed.
Hours of the solemnity; Te Deum
Transferred from yesterday.
[RM]Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Photina, the Samaritan woman (cf. Jn. 4:4-42) [from the Roman Martyrology].
[RM]Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Archippus, disciple of Paul (cf. Phlm. 1-2) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:126th anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Etterlé (37) d. 1897 at Caia, l Zambezi. Read Obituary
Anniversary:71st anniversary of the death of P. Kevin Lenaghan (52) d. 1952 at Rondebosch, RSA. Read Obituary
Birthday:34th birthday of S. Tafumanei Eric CHIKANYA (born this day in 1989).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1393St. John Nepomucene dies, being thrown into the Moldau in Bohemia. (In the new RM)
1571Borgia orders the Jesuits to withdraw from the Florida mission, seeing little or no fruit of their labors. "Shake the dust from your feet."
1597At Rome the death of Fr. James Terry, a Scotsman. When he was a scholastic, St. Ignatius reputedly appeared to him and told him to study less and pray more.
1873Jules Lebreton, S.J. is born. Historian and theologian.
1899Teilhard de Chardin enters the novitiate at Aix en Provence. He joins C.C. Martindale who was already a novice, on rest there to complete his novitiate.
1977Horacio de Ia Costa, S.J. dies Philippine Jesuit historian, had been provincial and then assistant to the General in Rome.

 


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