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January 2022

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For true human fraternity (Watch video(Read Reflection)
"We pray for all those suffering from religious discrimination and persecution; may their own rights and dignity be recognized, which originate from being brothers and sisters in the human family."

22 Saturday
 greenSaturday of the second week in Ordinary Time.
 Mass ad lib.
Cycle II [316] 2 Sam 1:1-4, 11-12, 19, 23-27; Ps 80:2-3, 5-7; Mark 3:20-21.
 Hours of the day.
  redSt. Vincent, deacon and martyr
Common of Martyrs
(Readings from the Common of Saints: [517] 2 Cor 4:7-15 (#716.3); Ps 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9 (#715.2); Matt 10:17-22 (#718.1).
Optional
  white   greenSaturday Memorial of the Blessed Virgin MaryOptional
[RM]Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Enoch (cf. Gn. 5:18–24) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:95th anniversary of the death of P. Herman Walmesley (76) d. 1927 at Rome, Italy. Read Obituary
Anniversary:78th anniversary of the death of P. John Lyszczarz (37) d. 1944 at Katondwe, N. Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:16th anniversary of the death of P. Duarte Teixeira (78) d. 2006 at Paio Pires, Portugal. Read Obituary
Anniversary:6th anniversary of the death of P. Abel Paulo Guerra (89) d. 2016 at Braga, Portugal. Read Obituary
Birthday:49th birthday of P. Paulo CĂ©sar de Alexandre GASPAR (born this day in 1973).
Birthday:79th birthday of P. Roy THADEN (born this day in 1943).
Birthday:26th birthday of S. Gift CHIFAMBA (born this day in 1996).
Birthday:47th birthday of P. Andrew SIMPASA (born this day in 1975).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1561Pius IV abrogates the decree of Paul II and keeps the life term of Father General.
1614The death of Fr. Martin Costens, a Polish Jesuit, who had an iron crown weighing 16 pounds placed on his head and tightened with a pin until his head was crushed.
1769On the part of his sovereign, Louis XV, the French Ambassador, Aubeterre, presented to Clement XIII a summary demand for the total suppression of the Society. He found the Pope unbending.
1901Saint Alberto Hurtado, S.J. is born in Chile. He established Hogar de Cristo, and worked with youth, in Catholic Action. He dies 18 August 1952.

 


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