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March 2021

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: Sacrament of reconciliation (Watch video(Read Reflection)
"Let us pray that we may experience the sacrament of reconciliation with renewed depth, to taste the infinite mercy of God."

22 Monday
  violetMonday in the Fifth Week of Lent
Mass of the day. Preface of the Passion I
 [251] Dan 13:1-9, 15-17, 19-30, 33-62 or 13:41c-62; Ps 23:1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6; John 8:1-11 (Year A or B) or Jn 8:12-20 (Year C).
Hours of the day.
[RM]Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Epaphroditus, disciple of Paul (cf. Phil. 2:25) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:128th anniversary of the death of P. Thomas Manning (38) d. 1893 at Grahamstown, RSA. Read Obituary
Anniversary:104th anniversary of the death of P. Carlos Friedrich (71) d. 1917 at St. Andrä, Austria. Read Obituary
Anniversary:88th anniversary of the death of F. Angelo Dal Bosco (57) d. 1933 at Baturite, Brazil. Read Obituary
Anniversary:66th anniversary of the death of P. John Kelly (52) d. 1955 at Salisbury, Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:19th anniversary of the death of P. Kenneth Spence (77) d. 2002 at Harare, Zimbabwe. Read Obituary

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1540St. Francis Xavier, told by Ignatius to prepare to leave for the Indies, was ready the next day; he needed only sufficient time to have his poor soutane mended.
1585In Rome, the three Japanese ambassadors were received by Fr. General with great solemnity in the Society's Church of the Gesu.
1594Henry IV took possession of Paris after a prolonged siege. Fr. Possevino and other Jesuits worked at effecting a reconciliation of the king with Rome.
1643At Nagasaki, Ven. Father Anthony Rubino, an Italian, after suffering for seven months under the "torture of water," was hanged by the feet in a pit with his head downwards, and so expired.
1655Fr. Francis Perez died at Antwerp. He was born on Christmas Day and died on Good Friday. He followed his two sons into the Society of Jesus and they served his first Mass.
1980Luis Espinal, S.J. journalist, beaten and machine- gunned, dies a martyr, in Bolivia, aged 48. He worked for the compesinos.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2021

Dominical Letter  c
Golden Number  8
Epact  xvi
Solar Cycle 14
Letter of the Martyrology r
Roman Year of Indiction 14
Julian Period Year 6734
Years since the confirmation of the Society 481
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  465
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 0
Sunday Readings  Cycle  B
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 4 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    2 May