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October 2081

22 Wednesday
  greenWednesday of the twenty-ninth week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle I [475] Rom 6:12-18; Ps 124:1b-3, 4-6, 7-8; Luke 12:39-48.
 Hours of the day.
  whiteSt John Paul II, pope
Common of Pastors: For a Pope
Readings from the Common of Saints: [663A] Isa 52:7-10 (#719.5); Ps 96:1-2a, 2b-3, 7-8a, 10 (#721.5); John 21:15-17 (#724.12).
Optional
Anniversary:89th anniversary of the death of F. Anthony Kowalik (71) d. 1992 at Katondwe, Zambia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:61st anniversary of the death of P. Karl Steffens (ZIM) (84) d. 2020 at Harare, Zimbabwe. Read Obituary
Jubilee:Palladium Jubilee of P. Tomás ARMANDO who celebrates 75 years of Priesthood today.

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 2081

Dominical Letter  e
Golden Number  11
Epact  xix
Solar Cycle 18
Letter of the Martyrology u
Roman Year of Indiction 14
Julian Period Year 6794
Years since the confirmation of the Society 541
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  525
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 60
Sunday Readings  Cycle  B
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 30 March
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    4 May