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July 2023

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For a Eucharistic life (Watch video(Read Reflection)
"Let us pray that Catholics place at the centre of their lives the Eucharistic Celebration, which transforms human relationships profoundly and opens up an encounter with God and their brothers and sisters."

24 Monday
  greenMonday of the sixteenth week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle I [395] Exod 14:5-18; Exod 15:1b-2, 3-4, 5-6; Matt 12:38-42.
 Hours of the day.
  whiteSt Sharbel Makhlūf, priest [2002 RM]
Common of Pastors, or Common of Holy Men and Women
Readings from the Common of Saints: [604A] Sir 3:17-24 (#737.13); Ps 15:2-3ab, 3cd-4ab, 5 (#739.2); Matt 19:27-29 (#742.9).
Optional
[RM]Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture the Three magi (cf. Mt. 2:10-11) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:133rd anniversary of the death of P. Alfred Weld (67) d. 1890 at Grahamstown, RSA. Read Obituary
Anniversary:102nd anniversary of the death of F. Peter Schafer (40) d. 1921 at Grahamstown, RSA. Read Obituary
Anniversary:25th anniversary of the death of P. Frederick Moriarty (64) d. 1998 at Dublin, Ireland. Read Obituary

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1575In Rome Fr. Robert Parsons enters the Society.
1804Maryland, Fr. Robert Molyneux is appointed First Superior by Fr. General Gruber.
1861The purchase of the Roehampton property by the Society. The owners thought they were selling it to the Queen as a residence for the Prince of Wales.
1936The death of S.G. Braulio Martínez and Lawrence Isla, martyrs of the Spanish Civil War.
1950John Birkmeyer, N.S.J. dies Novice drowns at St. Andrew on Hudson, New York in the Hudson River.
1977George Glanzman, S.J. Scripture scholar dies.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2023

Dominical Letter  A
Golden Number  10
Epact  viii
Solar Cycle 16
Letter of the Martyrology h
Roman Year of Indiction 1
Julian Period Year 6736
Years since the confirmation of the Society 483
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  467
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 2
Sunday Readings  Cycle  A
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 9 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    16 April