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February 2024

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the terminally ill (Watch video(Read Reflection)
"Let us pray that the sick who are in the final stages of life, and their families, receive the necessary medical and human care and accompaniment."

21 Wednesday
  violetWednesday in the First Week of Lent
Mass of the day. Preface of Lent I - IV
 [226] Jonah 3:1-10; Ps 51:3-4, 12-13, 18-19; Luke 11:29-32.
Hours of the day.
  whiteSt Peter Damian, bishop and doctor of the Church
Common of Doctors of the Church, or Common of Pastors, or
Readings from the Common of Saints: [534] 2 Tim 4:1-5 (#728.7); Ps 16:1-2+5, 7-8, 11 (#739.3); John 15:1-8 (#742.24).
Commemoration
Anniversary:18th anniversary of the death of F. Vincent McArdle (79) d. 2006 at Manchester, England. Read Obituary
Anniversary:13th anniversary of the death of P. Gerry Lorriman (96) d. 2011 at Cape Town, RSA. Read Obituary
Anniversary:12th anniversary of the death of P. Richard Cremins (89) d. 2012 at Dublin, Ireland. Read Obituary
Anniversary:7th anniversary of the death of F. Peter Doyle (HIB) (84) d. 2017 at Dublin, Ireland. Read Obituary

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1595At Tyburn, the martyrdom of Robert Southwell after he had suffered brutal tortures in Topcliffe's house and in prison. He embraced the gaoler who brought him word that he was to be executed. As he breathed his last, Lord Mountjoy, who presided over the execution, exclaimed: "May my soul be one day with that of this man."
1608The GC 6 was convened. The sixty-four members of the Congregation conï¬rmed Aquaviva’s leadership and their conï¬dence in him.
1616At Seville died Father Alphonsus Rodriguez, full of days and merits, for he had reached the 90th year of his age and the 70th in the Society. He had been Master of Novices for 40 years and wrote that golden work The Practice of Christian Perfection, one of the most influential spiritual works ever written. There have been 50 editions in Spanish, and it has been translated into twenty four languages.
1900Fr. Genicot, S.J. dies Professor of Moral Theology at Louvain, age 44.
1984Francis Rouleau, S.J. dies He was an historian and expert on the Chinese Rites Controversy.
2001Pope John Paul II creates forty four new cardinals, including Cardinal Avery Dulles, S.J.
2013Resignation of Pope Benedict XVI.

 


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