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July 2077

25 Sunday
  greenSeventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
57th World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly (est. 2021)
Mass of the Sunday; gloria, creed.
Yr A [109] 1 Kgs 3:5, 7-12; Ps 119:57+72, 76-77, 127-128, 129-130; Rom 8:28-30; Matt 13:44-52 or 13:44-46.
 Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum.
Week 1 of the Psalter.
[RM]Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. James, son of Zebedee, apostle (cf. Mt. 4:21-22) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Birthday:90th birthday of S. Masuzyo Mwango JUMBE (born this day in 1987).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1580Fr. Balthasar Alvarez dies. Spiritual Director of Teresa of Avila, Master of Novices, and Provincial of three Provinces. St. Teresa learned by revelation that he was one of the most perfect men then living.
1581An interview between Queen Elizabeth and Edmund Campion. He had addressed her at Oxford 15 years earlier.
1583The martyrdom near Goa, India, of Blessed Rudolph Aquaviva, Peter Berno, Francis Aranha, Alphonsus Pacheco and Anthony Francisco. It is listed as July 15th in the old style calendar. Peter Berno is the only Swiss Jesuit who has been beatified.
1657In Poland died Fr. William Rose, a Frenchman, confessor to the Queen of Poland. His bed was a board, and two books served for pillow.
1922Pius XI declares St. Ignatius the heavenly patron of Spiritual Exercises and related works.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2077

Dominical Letter  c
Golden Number  7
Epact  v
Solar Cycle 14
Letter of the Martyrology e
Roman Year of Indiction 10
Julian Period Year 6790
Years since the confirmation of the Society 537
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  521
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 56
Sunday Readings  Cycle  A
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 11 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    18 April