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September 2073

23 Saturday
  whiteSt Pius of Pietrelcina (Padre Pio), priest
Mass of the memorial; preface of the weekday, or of the saint.
Cycle I [448] 1 Tim 6:13-16; Ps 100:1b-2, 3, 4, 5; Luke 8:4-15.
Hours of the Memorial.
Common of Pastors, or Common of Holy Men and Women: For Religious
Readings from the Common of Saints: [643A] Gal 2:19-20 (#740.5); Ps 128:1-2, 3, 4-5 (#739.8); Matt 16:24-27 (#742.6).
[RM]Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Rebecca, matriarch (cf. Gn. 24, 49:30–31) [from the Roman Martyrology].
[RM]Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture Sts. Zachariah and Elizabeth, parents of John the Baptist (cf. Lk. 1:13-14,41-42) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Birthday:77th birthday of S. Timóteo Bartolomeu PORTÃSIO (born this day in 1996).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1590Nicolas Bobadilla dies. He is the last survivor of Ignatius' first ten companions. He was the occasion of some trouble in the First General Congregation, claiming a share in the government, but he afterwards acknowledged his fault. He was the first Jesuit of the original ten and the only one of the original ten to be 50 years in the Society.
1773General Ricci enters Castel Sant Angelo, age 70. He will stay there and die there on November 24, 1775. He could not write or celebrate Mass.
1869Woodstock College of the Sacred Heart opens. 17 priests, 44 scholastics, 16 brothers - the largest Jesuit community in the USA. "Wisdom hath built for herself a house" according to the sermon by the Provincial of Maryland, Joseph E. Keller.
1941The death of Fr. McGarry, S.J. From the New England Province, he was a spiritual writer, and the first editor of Theological Studies.
1942Walter Ciszek and Victor Novikov are sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment for spying. This was later reduced to five years in a labor camp. Ciszek was freed in 1963.

 


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