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August 2089

28 Sunday
  greenTwenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mass of the Sunday; gloria, creed.
Yr A [124] Jer 20:7-9; Ps 63:2, 3-4, 5-6, 8-9; Rom 12:1-2; Matt 16:21-27.
 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:138th anniversary of the death of P. Alfred Connell (45) d. 1951 at Salisbury, Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Birthday:106th 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 2089

Dominical Letter  b
Golden Number  19
Epact  xvii
Solar Cycle 26
Letter of the Martyrology s
Roman Year of Indiction 7
Julian Period Year 6802
Years since the confirmation of the Society 549
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  533
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 68
Sunday Readings  Cycle  A
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 3 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    1 May