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August 2025

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For mutual coexistence (Read Reflection)
"Let us pray that societies where coexistence seems more difficult might not succumb to the temptation of confrontation for ethnic, political, religious or ideological reasons."

24 Sunday
  greenTwenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mass of the Sunday; gloria, creed.
Yr C [123] Isa 66:18-21; Ps 117:1, 2; Heb 12:5-7, 11-13; Luke 13:22-30.
 Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum.
Week 1 of the Psalter.
[RM]Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Bartholomew, apostle (cf. Jn. 1:48-49) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:58th anniversary of the death of F. Andrew Jedrzejczyk (92) d. 1967 at Kabwe, Zambia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:54th anniversary of the death of P. Charles Bolger (85) d. 1971 at Tremeirchion, N Wales. Read Obituary
Anniversary:47th anniversary of the death of P. Henry Widlake (68) d. 1978 at Bindura, Zimbabwe. Read Obituary
Birthday:62nd birthday of P. Lawrence DAKA (born this day in 1963).

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 2025

Dominical Letter  e
Golden Number  12
Epact  *
Solar Cycle 18
Letter of the Martyrology P
Roman Year of Indiction 3
Julian Period Year 6738
Years since the confirmation of the Society 485
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  469
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 4
Sunday Readings  Cycle  C
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 20 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    20 April