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August 2023

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For World Youth Day (Watch video(Read Reflection)
"Let us pray that the World Youth Day in Lisbon will help young people to set out on the journey, witnessing to the Gospel with their own lives."

24 Thursday
  redSt Bartholomew, apostle
Mass of the feast; Gloria, preface of the feast.
Yr A[629] Rev 21:9b-14; Ps 145:10-11, 12-13ab, 17-18; John 1:45-51.
 Hours of the feast; Te Deum.
[RM]Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Bartholomew, apostle (cf. Jn. 1:48-49) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:56th anniversary of the death of F. Andrew Jedrzejczyk (92) d. 1967 at Kabwe, Zambia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:52nd anniversary of the death of P. Charles Bolger (85) d. 1971 at Tremeirchion, N Wales. Read Obituary
Anniversary:45th anniversary of the death of P. Henry Widlake (68) d. 1978 at Bindura, Zimbabwe. Read Obituary
Birthday:60th birthday of P. Lawrence DAKA (born this day in 1963).
Jubilee:Crystal Jubilee of P. José JÚLIO who celebrates 15 years of Priesthood today.

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1572Bartholomew Day Massacre, in which Hugenots are killed. "Protestant and infidel historians alike agree that the Society had no part in this bloody deed..."
1734Brief of Clement XII hinders inculturation efforts in India. 1750. Bonaventure Suarez, S.J. dies in Mexico, astronomer, and the first scientist of the Americas.
1809Lorenzo Hervas y Panduro, S.J. dies. He was a missionary to America, a philologist, ethnologist, and writer, author of "The Idea of the Universe."
1905Hans Urs von Balthasar, is born.
1918Cardinal Avery Dulles, S.J. B American theologian.
1936The death of S.G. Andrew Carrió, martyr of the Spanish Civil War who remained in Spain ministering to people after the Society was suppressed.
1951Jan Korec is consecrated clandestine bishop in a locked, dark room in a Czechoslovakian prison, at age 27.
1977Opening of the seventh Congress of Jesuit Ecumenists at Frankfurt, with over 100 Jesuits.

 


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