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January 2022

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For true human fraternity (Watch video(Read Reflection)
"We pray for all those suffering from religious discrimination and persecution; may their own rights and dignity be recognized, which originate from being brothers and sisters in the human family."

25 Tuesday
 whiteThe Conversion of St Paul, apostleFeast
Mass of the feast; Gloria, preface of the feast.
 [519] Acts 22:3-16 or Acts 9:1-22; Ps 117:1bc, 2; Mark 16:15-18.
 Hours of the feast; Te Deum.
[RM]Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture the Conversion of St. Paul (cf. Acts 9:3–9, Acts 9:13–19) [from the Roman Martyrology].
[RM]Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Ananias of Damascus (cf. Acts 9:10) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:123rd anniversary of the death of P. Charles Croonenberghs (56) d. 1899 at Verviers, Belgium. Read Obituary
Anniversary:80th anniversary of the death of P. Cyril Kilroe (40) d. 1942 at Grahamstown, RSA. Read Obituary
Anniversary:10th anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Danel (91) d. 2012 at Lusaka, Zambia. Read Obituary

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1707Cardinal Tournon, Papal Visitor of the missions in China, forbade the use of the words Tien or Xant for God, and ordered the discontinuance by the Christians of the Chinese Rites. This was the beginning of the destruction of the mission there.
1918The death of Fr. Thomas Gannon, S.J., he was appointed three years earlier as the first Assistant for the American Assistancy. Was Provincial of NY and gave America magazine its name.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2022

Dominical Letter  b
Golden Number  9
Epact  xxvii
Solar Cycle 15
Letter of the Martyrology H
Roman Year of Indiction 15
Julian Period Year 6735
Years since the confirmation of the Society 482
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  466
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 1
Sunday Readings  Cycle  C
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 17 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    24 April