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January 2025

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the right to an education (Read Reflection)
"Let us pray for migrants, refugees and those affected by war, that their right to an education, which is necessary to build a better world, might always be respected."

27 Monday
 greenMonday of the third week in Ordinary Time.
20th International Day in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust (est. 2005)
 Mass ad lib.
Cycle I [317] Heb 9:15, 24-28; Ps 98:1, 2-3ab, 3cd-4, 5-6; Mark 3:22-30.
 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
Anniversary:10th anniversary of the death of P. Cornelius O'Driscoll (81) d. 2015 at Dublin, Ireland. Read Obituary
Anniversary:4th 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 2025

Dominical Letter  e
Golden Number  12
Epact  *
Solar Cycle 18
Letter of the Martyrology P
Roman Year of Indiction 3
Julian Period Year 6738
Years since the confirmation of the Society 485
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  469
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 4
Sunday Readings  Cycle  C
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 20 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    20 April