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October 2023

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the Synod (Watch video(Read Reflection)
"Let us pray for the Church, that she may adopt listening and dialogue as a style of life at every level, allowing herself to be guided by the Holy Spirit towards the world’s peripheries."

27 Friday
  greenFriday of the twenty-ninth week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle I [477] Rom 7:18-25a; Ps 119:66, 68, 76, 77, 93, 94; Luke 12:54-59.
 Hours of the day.
Anniversary:142nd anniversary of the death of F. Joseph Dowling (35) d. 1881 at Mopeia, Mozambique. Read Obituary
Anniversary:90th anniversary of the death of F. Anthony Barbera (73) d. 1933 at Chishawasha, S. Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:78th anniversary of the death of P. Francis Tomaka (63) d. 1945 at Kasisi, N. Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:78th anniversary of the death of P. Stanislaus Siemienski (61) d. 1945 at Salisbury, Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:24th anniversary of the death of P. Manuel Agostinho (84) d. 1999 at Cernache, Portugal. Read Obituary

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1610The first entrance of the Jesuit Fathers into Canada. This mission was recommended to the Society by King Henry IV of France.
1705Tirso Gonzalez dies 13th General of the Society. He was a Promoter of the missions in China, India, Americas, and in Europe too.
1820Several members of the Society are condemned by the 20th General Congregation of "plotting against the Institute."
1873Departure of Fr. Beckx, General, from the Gesu, a pathetic scene.
1954Henri Perrin, an ex-Jesuit worker priest, is killed in an unexplained motorcycle accident.
1996Christophe Munzihirwa Mwene Ngabo SJ, archbishop of Bukavu in the Democratic Republic was murdered. He had denounced the political and economic exploitation of hundreds of thousands of Rwandan refugees who sought refuge in Kivu.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2023

Dominical Letter  A
Golden Number  10
Epact  viii
Solar Cycle 16
Letter of the Martyrology h
Roman Year of Indiction 1
Julian Period Year 6736
Years since the confirmation of the Society 483
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  467
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 2
Sunday Readings  Cycle  A
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 9 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    16 April