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September 2022

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the abolition of the death penalty (Watch video(Read Reflection)
"We pray that the death penalty, which attacks the dignity of the human person, may be legally abolished in every country."

20 Tuesday
  redSt. Andrew Kim Taegon, priest and martyr, St. Paul Chong Hasang, catechist and martyr, and their companions, martyrs
Mass of the memorial; preface of the weekday, or of the saint.
Cycle II [450] Prov 21:1-6, 10-13; Ps 119:1, 27, 30, 34, 35, 44; Luke 8:19-21.
Hours of the Memorial.
Common of Martyrs
Readings from the Common of Saints: [642A] Wis 3:1-9, or Rom 8:31b-39; Ps 126:1bc-2ab, 2cd-3, 4-5, 6; Luke 9:23-26.
Anniversary:96th anniversary of the death of F. Walter Ellis (47) d. 1926 at Hackney, London, England. Read Obituary
Anniversary:10th anniversary of the death of P. Christian Weichsel (80) d. 2012 at Harare, Zimbabwe. Read Obituary
Anniversary:4th anniversary of the death of P. John Moore (ZAM) (91) d. 2018 at Lusaka, Zambia. Read Obituary
Birthday:76th birthday of P. Eustace SEQUEIRA (born this day in 1946).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1560At Rome, the entrance into the Society of Robert Bellarmine, the nephew of Pope Marcellus II.
1565S. Andrea in Quirinale, Rome, is opened by St. Francis Borgia as the first separate novitiate, separate from Colleges and Professed Houses.
1565Under the leadership of Father General Francis Borgia, Sant’Andrea in Quirinale in Rome opened as the first novitiate separate from a colleges or professed house.
1990The First Congregation of Provincials meets at Loyola, Spain, 83 provincials, on the occasion of the 450th anniversary of the approval of the Society, and 500th anniversary of the birth of St. Ignatius.
2005John Long, S.J. dies, age 80. Ecumenist, expert on Eastern Orthodoxy, with the Vatican Secretariat of Unity, and Dialog.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2022

Dominical Letter  b
Golden Number  9
Epact  xxvii
Solar Cycle 15
Letter of the Martyrology H
Roman Year of Indiction 15
Julian Period Year 6735
Years since the confirmation of the Society 482
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  466
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 1
Sunday Readings  Cycle  C
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 17 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    24 April