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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."

26 Thursday
  greenThursday of the twenty-fifth week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle II [452] Eccl 1:2-11; Ps 90:3-4, 5-6, 12-13, 14+7bc; Luke 9:7-9.
 Hours of the day.
  redSts Cosmas and Damian, martyrs
Common of Martyrs
Readings from the Common of Saints: [644] Wis 3:1-9 (#713.5); Ps 126:1bc-2ab, 2cd-3, 4-5, 6 (#715.4); Matt 10:28-33 (#718.2).
Optional
[RM]Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Gideon, judge (cf. Jgs. 8:22-23) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:131st anniversary of the death of P. InocĂȘncio Perrodin (39) d. 1893 at Milanje Road, Portuguese Eastern Africa. Read Obituary
Anniversary:97th anniversary of the death of F. Joseph Timmer (60) d. 1927 at Salisbury, Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:4th anniversary of the death of P. Luka Lučić (ZAM) (81) d. 2020 at Zagreb, Croatia. Read Obituary
Birthday:34th birthday of S. Martin B. MUSONDA (born this day in 1990).
Birthday:25th birthday of S. Blackwell CHALULA (born this day in 1999).
Birthday:44th birthday of P. Bendito Evressone NGOZO (born this day in 1980).
Jubilee:Diamond Jubilee of P. Roland VON NIDDA who celebrates 60 years in the Society today.

On this day in our Jesuit history...

Saints John de Brébeuf, Isaac Jogues, Priests, and Companions, Martyrs (Feast)

Jesuits of the French Province did considerable missionary work among the indigenous tribes in North America, in Huronia (Quebec Province), between 1625 and 1649. They eventually constructed a Christian settlement. The martyrdom of the eight saints commemorated today occurred in the context of conflicts between the Huron and Iroquois tribes. They were killed by the Iroquois. The martyrs commemorated today are: Fathers John de Brébeuf, Isaac Jogues, Anthony Daniel, Charles Garnier, Noël Chabanel, Gabriel Lalemant, Brother René Goupil and lay volunteer John de La Lande.

1758Letter from Father Laurence Ricci, ordering prayers to avert impending calamities.
1886At Florence in the theatre "Re Umberto," 3,000 Liberals shouted for the expulsion of all Jesuits from Tuscany. Soon after, the theatre was burned to the ground.
1889Martin Heidegger is born. Philosopher, had been a Jesuit novice.
1926Felix Millan dies in the leper colony in Culion, Philippines. He is called "The Father of the Lepers."
1926Jesuit High, New Orleans, opens.
1926The death at the leprosarium in CuliĂłn, the Philippines, of Father Felipe MillĂĄn, known as the "Father of Lepers" after a life heroically dedicated to caring for the sick.

 


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