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July 2073

23 Sunday
  greenSixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
53rd World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly (est. 2021)
Mass of the Sunday; gloria, creed.
Yr C [108] Gen 18:1-10a; Ps 15:2-3a, 3b-4, 5; Col 1:24-28; Luke 10:38-42.
 Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum.
Week 4 of the Psalter.
[RM]Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Ezekiel, prophet (cf. Ez. 1:3) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:188th anniversary of the death of P. Charles Pétidy (41) d. 1885 at Sena, Province of Mozambique. Read Obituary
Anniversary:96th anniversary of the death of F. Michael Cich (58) d. 1977 at Chicago, USA. Read Obituary
Anniversary:87th anniversary of the death of P. Gerald Finnieston (76) d. 1986 at Harare, Zimbabwe. Read Obituary
Anniversary:55th anniversary of the death of P. Peter Hackett (BRI) (93) d. 2018 at Boscombe, England. Read Obituary

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1553At Palermo the parish priests express to Fr. Paul Achilles, the Rector of the College, their indignation that more than 400 persons should have received communion in the Society's church, and not in their parish churches.
1637At Rome, the fourth translation of the body of St. Ignatius. It is moved to a newly designed shrine in the Gesu.
1840The Belgian missionary Fr. Jean Pierre De Smet dedicated the mission that he and five companions were en route to establish in the U.S.A.’s Rocky Mountains to "St. Ignatius, Patron of the Mountains"
1879Fathers Depelchin, Law and others arrive in South Africa at Shoshong and are introduced to King Khama.
1893Benito Vines dies. He was director of the meteorological observatory in Havana, Cuba and an expert on hurricanes.
1929The Prefect of Rome seized all copies of Civilta Cattolica of July 20th, because of articles that were anti-Fascist. The editor was arrested.
2002Edward (Ted) Yarnold, S.J. dies, Ecumenist, scholar at Oxford, in the Anglican-Catholic Dialogue.
2012The death of Fr. Vincent O’Keefe.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2073

Dominical Letter  A
Golden Number  3
Epact  xxi
Solar Cycle 10
Letter of the Martyrology B
Roman Year of Indiction 6
Julian Period Year 6786
Years since the confirmation of the Society 533
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  517
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 52
Sunday Readings  Cycle  C
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 26 March
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    30 April