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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."

28 Sunday
 greenFourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
71st World Leprosy (Hansen's Disease) Day (est. 1953)
Mass of the Sunday; Gloria, Creed, Pref. of Sunday.
Yr B [71] Deut 18:15-20; Ps 95:1-2, 6-7a, 7b-9; 1 Cor 7:32-35; Mark 1:21-28.
 Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum.
Week 4 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:144th anniversary of the death of P. Charles Fuchs (40) d. 1880 at Tati, Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Birthday:44th birthday of P. Choobe M. MAAMBO (born this day in 1980).
Birthday:86th birthday of P. Peter EDMONDS (born this day in 1938).
Birthday:23rd birthday of NS. Elias João XAVIER (born this day in 2001).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1683The death of St. Julian Maunoir, known as "the Apostle of Britany" for preaching missions to the poor in the northwest of France for 42 years.
1853Fr. Gen. John Roothaan, wishing to resign his office, summoned a General Congregation, but died on May 8th, before it assembled.
1957The Jesuit Volunteer Corps was founded in the United States.
2007Robert Drinan, S.J. age 86, dies lawyer, Congressman, writer, concern for justice.

 


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