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February 2086

24 Sunday
  violetSecond Sunday of Lent
Mass of the Sunday; Creed, Preface of Second Sunday of Lent.
Penitential Rite for candidates to be admitted to Full Communion may be celebrated.
Yr A [25] Gen 12:1-4a; Ps 33:4-5, 18-19, 20+22; 2 Tim 1:8b-10; Matt 17:1-9.
Hours of the Sunday.
Week 2 of the Psalter.
Birthday:95th birthday of P. Luis MATOPE (born this day in 1991).
Birthday:91st birthday of S. Stephanie BWALYA (born this day in 1995).
Jubilee:Oak Jubilee of P. Russell POLLITT who celebrates 80 years of Priesthood today.

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1621Petition from Louis XIII of France to Pope Gregory XV, urging the canonization of St. Ignatius.
1637At Naples died Father Francis Pavone. Inflamed by his words and holy example, sixty of his class of Philosophy, and the entire class of Poetry embraced the Religious State.
1831On this day, Fr. General Roothaan’s letter declaring Missouri an independent mission (from Maryland) finally reaches the Missouri Jesuits. Their superior is Fr. Theodore De Theux. He communicated this to the 15 members of the Society in the West. This status gives the mission the privilege of having its own novitiate.
1979Fr. Francis Louis Martinsek, S.J. is assassinated in Mokame, India. He was born in Pennsylvania, USA.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2086

Dominical Letter  f
Golden Number  16
Epact  xiv
Solar Cycle 23
Letter of the Martyrology P
Roman Year of Indiction 4
Julian Period Year 6799
Years since the confirmation of the Society 546
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  530
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 65
Sunday Readings  Cycle  A
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 31 March
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    7 April