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September 2038

21 Tuesday
  redSt Matthew, apostle and evangelist
Mass of the feast; Gloria, preface of the feast.
Yr A[643] Eph 4:1-7, 11-13; Ps 19:2-3, 4-5; Matt 9:9-13.
 Hours of the feast; Te Deum.
[RM]Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Matthew, evangelist (cf. Mt. 9:9) [from the Roman Martyrology].
[RM]Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Jonah, prophet (cf. Jon. 2:1) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Birthday:57th birthday of P. Admire Rufaro NHIKA (born this day in 1981).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1557Melchior Cano is accused of being a heretic in disguise, and so he writes to Charles V, whose confessor he was.
1558St. Francis Borgia preaches the eulogy for the Emperor Charles V at Valladolid.
1761At Lisbon, the martyrdom of Fr. Gabriel Malagrida, aged seventy two. Pombal's inquisitors had found him guilty of heresy in a life of St. Anne written not by him, but by the ex- Capuchin, Norbert. He died by strangulation and the flames.
1851In Rome at the Basilica of St. Peter, Pope Pius IX beatiļ¬ed Peter Claver, "The apostle of the slaves."
1996Henri Nouwen dies, age 64 in Holland. He was a spiritual writer and teacher, and at the end he lived and worked with Lā€™Arche communities. Jesuit alumnus.
1999Piet Schoonenberg, S.J. dies, age 87. Theologian. New Dutch Catechism, The Christ.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2038

Dominical Letter  c
Golden Number  6
Epact  xxiv
Solar Cycle 3
Letter of the Martyrology E
Roman Year of Indiction 1
Julian Period Year 6751
Years since the confirmation of the Society 498
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  482
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 17
Sunday Readings  Cycle  A
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 25 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    25 April