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January 2026

25 Sunday
 greenThird Sunday in Ordinary Time
7th Sunday of the Word of God (est. 2020)
73rd World Leprosy (Hansen's Disease) Day (est. 1953)
Mass of the Sunday; Gloria, Creed, Pref. of Sunday.
Yr A [87] Isa 8:23-9:3; Ps 27:1, 4, 13-14; 1 Cor 1:10-13, 17; Matt 4:12-23 or 4:12-17.
 Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum.
Week 3 of the Psalter.
[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:127th anniversary of the death of P. Charles Croonenberghs (56) d. 1899 at Verviers, Belgium. Read Obituary
Anniversary:84th anniversary of the death of P. Cyril Kilroe (40) d. 1942 at Grahamstown, RSA. Read Obituary
Anniversary:14th 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 2026

Dominical Letter  d
Golden Number  13
Epact  xi
Solar Cycle 19
Letter of the Martyrology l
Roman Year of Indiction 4
Julian Period Year 6739
Years since the confirmation of the Society 486
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  470
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 5
Sunday Readings  Cycle  A
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 5 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    12 April