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August 2024

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For political leaders (Watch video(Read Reflection)
"Let us pray that political leaders be at the service of their own people, working for integral human development and the common good, taking caring of those who have lost their jobs and giving priority to the poor."

20 Tuesday
  whiteSt Bernard, abbot and doctor of the Church
Mass of the memorial; preface of the weekday, or of the saint.
Cycle II [420] Ezek 28:1-10; Deut 32:26-27ab, 27cd-28, 30, 35cd-36ab; Matt 19:23-30.
Hours of the Memorial.
Common of Doctors of the Church, or Common of Holy Men and Women: For Religious
Readings from the Common of Saints: [625] Sir 15:1-6 (#725.3); Ps 119:9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 (#727.3); John 17:20-26 (#742.26).
[RM]Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Zacchaeus (cf. Lk. 19:1-10) [from the Roman Martyrology].
[RM]Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Samuel, prophet (cf. 1 Sa. 1:20) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:75th anniversary of the death of P. Bernardino da Costa AraúJo (73) d. 1949 at Recife, Brazil. Read Obituary
Anniversary:35th anniversary of the death of P. John Jarski (65) d. 1989 at Sao Paulo, Brazil. Read Obituary
Birthday:31st birthday of S. Sean Nicholas VAN STADEN (born this day in 1993).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1639Fr. Jacob Bidermann dies. As a scholastic he wrote Cenodoxus: the Doctor of Paris. He was called the Shakespeare of the German Baroque period.
1820Restoration of the Society in Austria.
1823At Rome the death of Pope Pius VII, the restorer of the Society in 1814 and its second Father. His name will remain with us in benediction for ever.
1891At Santiago in Chile, the Government of Balmaceda ordered the Jesuit College to be closed.
1893Excitement in Rome because seven Italians were killed in a riot in Frances. Angry shouts were raised by the mob, "Down with the Pope! Death to the Jesuits!" and the windows of the German College were broken.
1972The death of PĂ­o Buck, a Swiss Jesuit known as the apostle of prisoners in Brasil; he was also famous as an entomologist.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2024

Dominical Letter  g f
Golden Number  11
Epact  xix
Solar Cycle 17
Letter of the Martyrology u
Roman Year of Indiction 2
Julian Period Year 6737
Years since the confirmation of the Society 484
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  468
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 3
Sunday Readings  Cycle  B
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 31 March
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    5 May