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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."

29 Wednesday
  violetWednesday in the Fifth Week of Lent
Mass of the day. Preface of the Passion I
 [253] Dan 3:14-20, 91-92, 95; Dan 3:52, 53, 54, 55, 56; John 8:31-42.
Hours of the day.
Anniversary:79th anniversary of the death of P. Victor Boehme (74) d. 1944 at Tremeirchion, N Wales. Read Obituary
Anniversary:37th anniversary of the death of P. Donald Ziemba (48) d. 1986 at Chicago, USA. Read Obituary
Anniversary:30th anniversary of the death of P. Domingos Isac MlaĂşzi (64) d. 1993 at Lisbon, Portugal. Read Obituary
Anniversary:25th anniversary of the death of P. José Maria Marques (68) d. 1998 at Paris, France. Read Obituary
Anniversary:19th anniversary of the death of P. Cornelius O'Donovan (82) d. 2004 at Harare, Zimbabwe. Read Obituary

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1549First 6 Jesuits arrive in the Americas at Salvador (Bahia), Brazil, led by Manuel de Nobrega.
1848Fr. General Roothaan flees from Rome in disguise, with a false passport. He will spend two years away from Rome.
1880Decree in France orders the dissolution and dispersal of Jesuits within three months.
1932First talkie movie shown at Woodstock College, "Song of My Heart", with John McCormack.
1988P. Jean de Boisseson, S.J. is killed in Madagascar.
2018Union of present province of French Canada and present province of English Canada in the Province of Canada

 


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