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October 2023

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the Synod (Watch video(Read Reflection)
"Let us pray for the Church, that she may adopt listening and dialogue as a style of life at every level, allowing herself to be guided by the Holy Spirit towards the world’s peripheries."

25 Wednesday
  greenWednesday of the twenty-ninth week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle I [475] Rom 6:12-18; Ps 124:1b-3, 4-6, 7-8; Luke 12:39-48.
 Hours of the day.
Anniversary:52nd anniversary of the death of F. Manuel Rodrigues (60) d. 1971 at Lisbon, Portugal. Read Obituary
Anniversary:1st anniversary of the death of P. Michael Austin (SAP) (85) d. 2022 at Johannesburg, RSA. Read Obituary
Birthday:50th birthday of P. Paul Musekiwa PETER (born this day in 1973).
Birthday:37th birthday of P. Carlos Protásio XAVIER (born this day in 1986).
Jubilee:Crystal Jubilee of P. Rampeoane HLOBO who celebrates 15 years of Priesthood today.

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1567St. Stanislaus Kostka arrived in Rome and was admitted into the Society by St. Francis Borgia.
1567The Arrival in Rome of St. Stanislaus Kostka, where he was admitted into the Society by St. Francis Borgia.
1572Edmund Daniel is martyred at Cork. He is the first Jesuit martyred in Europe.
1950Letter of Fr. General Janssens orders some books removed from libraries in houses of formation, including works of DeLubac, Bouillard, Danielou, and deMontcheuil. This is a follow up of Humani Generis.
1970Edmund Campion is canonized.
1975P. Louis Dumas, S.J. is killed in Beirut, Lebanon.
1982Pope John Paul II visits the Gregorian University and attends a symposium on Matteo Ricci. He praises him for his vision and his approach to the people and culture of China.

 


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