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March 2052

20 Wednesday
  violetWednesday in the Second Week of Lent
Mass of the day. Preface of Lent I - IV
 [232] Jer 18:18-20; Ps 31:5-6, 14, 15-16; Matt 20:17-28.
Hours of the day.
[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:155th anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Etterlé (37) d. 1897 at Caia, l Zambezi. Read Obituary
Anniversary:100th anniversary of the death of P. Kevin Lenaghan (52) d. 1952 at Rondebosch, RSA. Read Obituary
Birthday:63rd 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 2052

Dominical Letter  g f
Golden Number  1
Epact  xxix
Solar Cycle 17
Letter of the Martyrology N
Roman Year of Indiction 15
Julian Period Year 6765
Years since the confirmation of the Society 512
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  496
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 31
Sunday Readings  Cycle  C
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 21 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    21 April