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October 2023

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the Synod (Watch video(Read Reflection)
"Let us pray for the Church, that she may adopt listening and dialogue as a style of life at every level, allowing herself to be guided by the Holy Spirit towards the world’s peripheries."

22 Sunday
  greenTwenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time
97th World Mission Sunday (est. 1926)
Mass of the Sunday; gloria, creed.
Yr A [145] Isa 45:1, 4-6; Ps 96:1+3, 4-5, 7-8, 9-10; 1 Thess 1:1-5b; Matt 22:15-21.
 Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum.
Week 1 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:31st anniversary of the death of F. Anthony Kowalik (71) d. 1992 at Katondwe, Zambia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:3rd anniversary of the death of P. Karl Steffens (ZIM) (84) d. 2020 at Harare, Zimbabwe. Read Obituary

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1536Favre, Rodriguez, Salmeron, Bobadilla, Jay, Codure, and Broet are granted their M.A. degrees. Lainez and Xavier already had theirs.
1642Charles Raymbault dies French missionary, the first to die in Canada. He is buried next to Samuel Champlain.
1861Beaumont Lodge, Old Windsor, the Novitiate of the English Province from 1854-1861, was opened as a College.
1870In France, Garibaldi and his filibusters drove the Jesuits from the Colleges of Dole and Mont Roland.
1986Frances Xavier Weiser, S.J. dies. Writer, on liturgy and church feasts. Also wrote a book for youth that sold one million copies, and was translated into forty languages, The Light on the Mountain.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2023

Dominical Letter  A
Golden Number  10
Epact  viii
Solar Cycle 16
Letter of the Martyrology h
Roman Year of Indiction 1
Julian Period Year 6736
Years since the confirmation of the Society 483
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  467
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 2
Sunday Readings  Cycle  A
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 9 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    16 April