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October 2085

28 Sunday
  greenThirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mass of the Sunday; gloria, creed.
Yr C [150] Sir 35:12-14, 16-18; Ps 34:2-3, 17-18, 19+23; 2 Tim 4:6-8, 16-18; Luke 18:9-14.
 Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum.
Week 2 of the Psalter.
[RM]Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Simon and Jude, apostles (cf. Acts 1:13-14a, Jn. 14:22-23) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:184th anniversary of the death of P. Walter Bridge (66) d. 1901 at Boscombe, England. Read Obituary
Anniversary:152nd anniversary of the death of F. António Augusto Pinheiro (64) d. 1933 at Macau, Hong Kong. Read Obituary
Anniversary:105th anniversary of the death of P. Brian Sharkey (63) d. 1980 at Lusaka, Zambia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:99th anniversary of the death of P. Lawrence Kearns (HIB) (74) d. 1986 at Dublin, Ireland. Read Obituary

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1510St. Francis Borgia is born.
1550St. Stanislaus Kostka born on this day and he also received the habit on this day in Rome in 1567. He would die nine months later.
1552At Rome, the opening of the German College.
1584Pope Gregory XIII dedicates the Roman College. He is received by Fr. General Acquaviva and the professors, including Bellarmine, Suarez, and Clavius.
1939President F.D. Roosevelt visits Fordham University.
1940Joseph J. Williams, S.J. dies New England Province, from the Jamaica mission; author, ethnologist, Hebrewisms of West Africa.
1949Leonard Feeney is dismissed from the Society of Jesus.
1956In La Vega, Dominican Republic, the inauguration of Radio Santa María, a station founded by the Jesuits to provide popular or basic education throughout that country.
1958Wilfrid Parsons, S.J. dies. Founder of Thought magazine and editor of America, 1925-36. He was then Professor at Georgetown University and Catholic University, age 71.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2085

Dominical Letter  g
Golden Number  15
Epact  iii
Solar Cycle 22
Letter of the Martyrology c
Roman Year of Indiction 3
Julian Period Year 6798
Years since the confirmation of the Society 545
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  529
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 64
Sunday Readings  Cycle  C
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 15 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    15 April