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July 2088

20 Tuesday
  greenTuesday of the sixteenth week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle II [396] Mic 7:14-15, 18-20; Ps 85:2-4, 5-6, 7-8; Matt 12:46-50.
 Hours of the day.
  redSt Apollinaris, bishop and martyr
Common of Martyrs, or Common of Pastors
Readings from the Common of Saints: [601B] Ezek 34:11-16 (#719.9); Ps 23:1-3a, 4, 5, 6 (#721.2); John 10:11-16 (#724.10).
Optional
[RM]Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Elijah, prophet (cf. 2 Kgs. 2:11) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:161st anniversary of the death of P. Edmund Delplace (86) d. 1927 at Bruges, Belgium. Read Obituary
Anniversary:80th anniversary of the death of P. Thomas M. Valiquette (75) d. 2008 at Centennial, USA.
Anniversary:72nd anniversary of the death of S. Lucídio Ribeiro (77) d. 2016 at Lisbon, Portugal. Read Obituary
Anniversary:67th anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Keaney (SAP) (72) d. 2021 at Lusaka, Zambia. Read Obituary
Birthday:89th birthday of S. Eusébio Mariano SAMUEL (born this day in 1999).
Jubilee:Palladium Jubilee of P. Admire Rufaro NHIKA who celebrates 75 years of Priesthood today.
Jubilee:Palladium Jubilee of P. Shepherd MUHAMBA who celebrates 75 years of Priesthood today.

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1541Pope Paul III assigned the church of Our Lady of the Way to the Society of Jesus. It was a small church but St. Ignatius highly esteemed its location in the heart of Rome.
1624At Cracow died John Laskowski, a Polish scholastic, who though not conscious of any mortal sin in his whole life was nonetheless so tormented with scruples that his confessor considered him a martyr of interior suffering.
1872At Rome, gangs of miscreants paraded the streets crying out: "Death to the Friars! Death to the Jesuits!."
1900The death in China of Sts. Paul Denn and Leo Mangin, martyrs of the Boxer Rebellion; the Church celebrates their feast on Feb. 4.
1944An abortive plot against Hitler by General Claus von Stauffenberg and his assistants resulted in the arrest of the Jesuit, Alfred Delp.
1986The Third World Congress of Jesuit Alumni/ae takes place at Versailles, preceded by a pilgrimage to Chartres.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2088

Dominical Letter  d c
Golden Number  18
Epact  vi
Solar Cycle 25
Letter of the Martyrology f
Roman Year of Indiction 6
Julian Period Year 6801
Years since the confirmation of the Society 548
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  532
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 67
Sunday Readings  Cycle  C
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 11 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    18 April