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January 2024

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the gift of diversity in the Church (Watch video(Read Reflection)
"Let us pray that the Spirit help us recognize the gift of different charisms within the Christian community, and to discover the richness of different ritual traditions in the heart of the Catholic Church."

27 Saturday
 greenSaturday of the third week in Ordinary Time.
19th International Day in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust (est. 2005)
 Mass ad lib.
Cycle II [322] 2 Sam 12:1-7a, 10-17; Ps 51:12-13, 14-15, 16-17; Mark 4:35-41.
 Hours of the day.
  whiteSt Angela Merici, virgin
Common of Virgins, or Common of Holy Men and Women: For Teachers
(Readings from the Common of Saints: [521] 1 Peter 4:7b-11 (#740.15); Ps 148:1bc-2, 11-13a, 13c-14 (#733.2); Mark 9:34b-37 (#742.15).
Optional
  white   greenSaturday Memorial of the Blessed Virgin MaryOptional
Anniversary:9th anniversary of the death of P. Cornelius O'Driscoll (81) d. 2015 at Dublin, Ireland. Read Obituary
Anniversary:3rd anniversary of the death of P. Wolf Huwe (GER) (82) d. 2021 at Berlin, Germany. Read Obituary

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1539Paul III dispenses Ignatius from reading the divine office because of health (exhaustion and stomach pain).
1602The grotto or cave at Manresa, famous in the life of St. Ignatius, became the property of the Society.
1805The Maryland mission being affiliated to the Society in Russia, Father Robert Molyneux, the First Superior of the Mission, and Father Charles Sewall renew their vows.
1829The death of Father General Luigi Fortis, the 20thsuperior general of the Society of Jesus, who led the reconstruction of the Society when it was restored after the Suppression.
1919One Novice and one Junior die of flu epidemic at St. Andrew on Hudson, New York.
1984Br. Angelo Mulatti dies in Rome, the last survivor of those who built the Curia on the Borgo Santo Spirito. He also suggested that a statue of the Sacred Heart be erected at the base of the old observatory.
1998Fr. Edward Malatesta, S.J. dies. He became an expert on China.
407407. John Chrysostom dies. This has been a traditional feast for Juniors.

 


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