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March 2048

25 Wednesday
  whiteTHE ANNUNCIATION OF THE LORD
All genuflect during the creed at the words "... and became man."
Solemnity
Mass of the solemnity; Gloria, Creed; preface of the solemnity.
[545] Is 7: 10-14; 8:10; Ps 40: 7-8a, 8b-9, 10, 11; Heb 10: 4-10; Lk 1: 26-38.
Other masses are prohibited, but the funeral mass is allowed.
Hours of the solemnity; Te Deum.
[RM]Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Dismas, the good thief (cf. Lk. 23:41-42) [from the Roman Martyrology].
[RM]Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture the Annunciation to Mary (cf. Lk. 1:26-38) [from the Roman Martyrology].
[RM]Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Isaac, patriarch (cf. Gn. 15-35) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:156th anniversary of the death of F. Jacob Glesinsky (33) d. 1892 at Boroma, Portuguese Eastern Africa. Read Obituary
Anniversary:153rd anniversary of the death of M. Amandus Leroeye (28) d. 1895 at Bombay, India. Read Obituary
Anniversary:116th anniversary of the death of P. Peter Molloy (58) d. 1932 at Preston, Lancs, England. Read Obituary
Anniversary:97th anniversary of the death of F. Ignatius Matzke (81) d. 1951 at Grahamstown, RSA. Read Obituary
27th Anniversary of the erection of the Southern Africa Province.

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1524Paschase Broet, one of the first ten companions of Ignatius, is ordained a priest long before he met St. Ignatius.
1538Diego Hozes, S.J. dies. The first Jesuit to die. (even if the Society was not yet officially approved). He was a Spanish priest who died in Padua.
1563The First Sodality of Our Lady of Fatima Prima Primaria was started at the Roman College by a young Belgian Jesuit, Jean Leunis.
1563The first Sodality of Our Lady, Prima Primaria, was begun in the Roman College by a young Belgian Jesuit named John Leunis (Leonius).
1586St. Margaret Clitheroe dies on this day, pressed to death. New RM. She protected some Jesuit Fathers.
1634Andrew White, S.J. arrives in Maryland. Mass said on St. Clement Isle, River Potomac, not far from St. Inigo's. This is the beginning of Catholicism in English speaking America).
1847Virgil Barber, S.J. dies. A convert to Catholicism, his wife and five children become religious, one of them a Jesuit.
1904Francis Xavier is chosen by Pius X as the patron of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith.
1920Instruction/Letter of Father General Ledochowski on the use of the telephone. No general permission is given to scholastics to use the phone, and no phones in private rooms.
1962Fr. Felice Cappello dies, known as "the Confessor of Rome", for hearing confessions at St. Ignatius Church.
1968Paul VI approve new statutes for Sodalities, now CLC.
1980Paul Dent, one of the first Missouri Province Jesuits who went to India in the 1920's, dies.
2021Erection of the Southern Africa Province.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2048

Dominical Letter  e d
Golden Number  16
Epact  xiv
Solar Cycle 13
Letter of the Martyrology P
Roman Year of Indiction 11
Julian Period Year 6761
Years since the confirmation of the Society 508
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  492
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 27
Sunday Readings  Cycle  B
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 5 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    5 April