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March 2023

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For victims of abuse (Watch video) (Read Reflection)
"Let us pray for those who have suffered harm from members of the ecclesial community, that they may find within the Church herself a concrete response to their pain and suffering."

28 Tuesday

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Tuesday in the Fifth Week of Lent

Mass of the day. Preface of the Passion I

[252] Num 21:4-9; Ps 102:2-3, 16-18, 19-21; John 8:21-30.

Hours of the day.

Anniversary:

71^st anniversary of the death of F. Alfred Batt (81) d. 1952 at St Beuno's, Tremeirchion, N Wales.

Birthday:

80^th birthday of P. Ronald HIDAKA (born this day in 1943).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1541

The First Companions gather to write the Constitutions of the Society in conformity with the Bull of Approval, "Regimini Militantis Ecclesiae," of Paul III.

1848

In Rome, Pope Pius IX, having intimated his wish that the Society should leave. the city because of the Revolution, Rev. Fr. General Roothaan and the Assistants prepared to depart.

1913

The Imperial Ministry of Education in Japan gives permission to open Sophia University.

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