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September 2024

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the cry of the Earth (Watch video(Read Reflection)
"Let us pray that each of us listen with our hearts to the cry of the Earth and of the victims of environmental disasters and the climate crisis, making a personal commitment to care for the world we inhabit."

25 Wednesday
  greenWednesday of the twenty-fifth week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle II [451] Prov 30:5-9; Ps 119:29, 72, 89, 101, 104, 163; Luke 9:1-6.
 Hours of the day.
[RM]Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Cleopas (cf. Lk. 24:17-18) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:44th anniversary of the death of P. Albino Esteves (63) d. 1980 at Porto, Portugal. Read Obituary

On this day in our Jesuit history...

Old Jesuit martyrology Bl. Camillus Constanzo, Augustus Oti and companions. 1617. Suarez dies Doctor Eximius. He wrote 24 volumes in folio on Philosophy and Theology. When dying he exclaimed: "I did not know that it was so sweet to die!" When a novice he was found so dull that he requested to be a lay-Brother.Father Guttierez bade him ask our Lady's help, and he became a prodigy of talent.
1617The death in Lisbon of Father Francisco Suárez, one of the foremost philosophers and theologians of the Society of Jesus.
1618John Berchmans pronounces his first vows. His father who had been ordained a priest, died shortly after this, but John was not informed for a few weeks.
1643Entrance into the Society of John Casimir Sobieski, son of King Sigismund of Poland. Three years later he was raised to the Cardinalate. In 1648 he was elected king of Poland, but abdicated in 1668, dying in 1672.
1988Junipero Serra, OFM and Miguel Pro, S.J. beatified
2001Timothy Toohig, S.J. dies. Jesuit physicist. Designer and executive at the National Accelerator Laboratory.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2024

Dominical Letter  g f
Golden Number  11
Epact  xix
Solar Cycle 17
Letter of the Martyrology u
Roman Year of Indiction 2
Julian Period Year 6737
Years since the confirmation of the Society 484
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  468
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 3
Sunday Readings  Cycle  B
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 31 March
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    5 May