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February 2068

26 Sunday
 greenEighth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mass of the Sunday; Gloria, Creed, Pref. of Sunday.
Yr A [82] Isa 49:14-15; Ps 62:2-3, 6-7, 8-9; 1 Cor 4:1-5; Matt 6:24-34.
 Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum.
Week 4 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:123rd anniversary of the death of P. Philip Hobart (67) d. 1945 at Sheffield, England. Read Obituary
Anniversary:66th anniversary of the death of P. Felix Kalebwe (65) d. 2002 at Lusaka, Zambia. Read Obituary

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1611At Ferrara died Father Anthony Possevino, employed by Gregory XIII on many important embassies to Sweden, Russia, Poland and Germany. Colleges and seminaries were opened by him at Cracow, Olmutz, Prague, Braunsberg, and Vilna. With all his labors he found time to write 24 books on history, sculpture and science.
1878At Rome died Father Angelo Secchi, one of the leading modern astronomers. He is honored with a bust in the Concellaria and on the Pincio. He taught physics at Georgetown and made the first general spectral classification of the stars at the Vatican Observatory. Inventor of the Secchi disk, to measure water transparency.
1932Hartman Grisar dies at Innsbruck. He was a Reformation historian and a Lutheran scholar.
1984James Finnegan, S.J. New York Province, is killed in Beirut, Lebanon by stray shell fire.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2068

Dominical Letter  A g
Golden Number  17
Epact  25
Solar Cycle 5
Letter of the Martyrology F
Roman Year of Indiction 1
Julian Period Year 6781
Years since the confirmation of the Society 528
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  512
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 47
Sunday Readings  Cycle  A
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 22 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    29 April