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October 2024

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For a shared mission (Watch video(Read Reflection)
"Let us pray that the Church continue to sustain a synodal lifestyle in every way, as a sign of co-responsibility, promoting the participation, communion and mission shared by priests, religious and laity."

27 Sunday
  greenThirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mass of the Sunday; gloria, creed.
Yr B [149] Jer 31:7-9; Ps 126:1-2a, 2b-3, 4-5, 6; Heb 5:1-6; Mark 10:46-52.
 Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum.
Week 2 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:143rd anniversary of the death of F. Joseph Dowling (35) d. 1881 at Mopeia, Mozambique. Read Obituary
Anniversary:91st anniversary of the death of F. Anthony Barbera (73) d. 1933 at Chishawasha, S. Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:79th anniversary of the death of P. Francis Tomaka (63) d. 1945 at Kasisi, N. Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:79th anniversary of the death of P. Stanislaus Siemienski (61) d. 1945 at Salisbury, Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:25th 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 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