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January 2097

22 Tuesday
 greenTuesday of the second week in Ordinary Time.
 Mass ad lib.
Cycle I [312] Heb 6:10-20; Ps 111:1-2, 4-5, 9-10; Mark 2:23-28.
 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
[RM]Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Enoch (cf. Gn. 5:18–24) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:170th anniversary of the death of P. Herman Walmesley (76) d. 1927 at Rome, Italy. Read Obituary
Anniversary:153rd anniversary of the death of P. John Lyszczarz (37) d. 1944 at Katondwe, N. Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:91st anniversary of the death of P. Duarte Teixeira (78) d. 2006 at Paio Pires, Portugal. Read Obituary
Anniversary:81st anniversary of the death of P. Abel Paulo Guerra (89) d. 2016 at Braga, Portugal. Read Obituary
Birthday:124th birthday of P. Paulo CĂ©sar de Alexandre GASPAR (born this day in 1973).
Birthday:154th birthday of P. Roy THADEN (born this day in 1943).
Birthday:101st birthday of S. Gift CHIFAMBA (born this day in 1996).
Birthday:122nd 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 2097

Dominical Letter  f
Golden Number  8
Epact  xvi
Solar Cycle 6
Letter of the Martyrology r
Roman Year of Indiction 15
Julian Period Year 6810
Years since the confirmation of the Society 557
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  541
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 76
Sunday Readings  Cycle  C
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 31 March
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    5 May