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August 2078

28 Sunday
  greenTwenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mass of the Sunday; gloria, creed.
Yr B [125] Deut 4:1-2, 6-8; Ps 15:2-3a, 3b-4a, 4b-5; Jas 1:17-18, 21b-22, 27; Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23.
 Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum.
Week 2 of the Psalter.
[RM]Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Hezekiah, king (cf. 2 Kgs. 18:5) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:127th anniversary of the death of P. Alfred Connell (45) d. 1951 at Salisbury, Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Birthday:95th birthday of P. Mwamba D. MUTALE (born this day in 1983).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1628Edmund Arrowsmith dies a martyr in Lancashire, England. 1632 Paul Le Jeune completes the first Jesuit Relations.
1633The martyrdom in Japan of the Italian Jesuit, Jácome Antonio Granoni.
1879The arrival of Fr. Depelchin and Augustine Law in South Africa to begin the mission there.
1983Dennis J. McCarthy, S.J. dies scripture scholar.
1985The death of Domenico Mondrone, for 54 years a writer for Civilta Cattolica. He wrote much on hagiography.
2003The death Maurice Giuliani, founder of Christus, expert in spirituality and a Councillor to Fr. Arrupe.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2078

Dominical Letter  b
Golden Number  8
Epact  xvi
Solar Cycle 15
Letter of the Martyrology r
Roman Year of Indiction 11
Julian Period Year 6791
Years since the confirmation of the Society 538
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  522
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 57
Sunday Readings  Cycle  B
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 3 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    8 May