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October 2023

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the Synod (Watch video(Read Reflection)
"Let us pray for the Church, that she may adopt listening and dialogue as a style of life at every level, allowing herself to be guided by the Holy Spirit towards the world’s peripheries."

29 Sunday
  greenThirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mass of the Sunday; gloria, creed.
Yr A [148] Exod 22:20-26; Ps 18:2-3a, 3b-4, 47+51; 1 Thess 1:5c-10; Matt 22:34-40.
 Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum.
Week 2 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:75th anniversary of the death of F. Stephen Rodenbuher (76) d. 1948 at Szeged, Hungary. Read Obituary
Anniversary:67th anniversary of the death of P. Charles Daignault (83) d. 1956 at Musami, S. Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:40th anniversary of the death of P. James Cogger (79) d. 1983 at London, England. Read Obituary
Anniversary:33rd anniversary of the death of P. William Thomas (82) d. 1990 at Harare, Zimbabwe. Read Obituary
Anniversary:31st anniversary of the death of P. Denis Carroll (72) d. 1992 at Monze, Zambia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:12th anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Dooley (92) d. 2011 at Bournemouth, England. Read Obituary
Birthday:40th birthday of P. Ricardo DA SILVA (born this day in 1983).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1632At Alost, in Belgium, the Scholastic, William Assaliers, seeing one of Ours dying and another about to leave the Society, prayed that he might sooner die than lose his vocation. He died within a few days.
1906Jesuit missionaries are granted faculties to celebrate Mass at sea as long as the time is tranquil.
1931An Apostolic Letter of Pius XI, Providentissimus Deus proclaims Robert Bellarmine a Doctor of the Church.
1996Archbishop Christophe Munzihirwa dies killed. Archbishop of Bukavu, Zaire. He had been Jesuit Provincial, 1980-86. Age 70. He had denounced the political and economic exploitation of Rwandan refugees who sought refuge in Kivu.

 


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