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August 2026

30 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.
Anniversary:123rd anniversary of the death of F. Henry Corten (66) d. 1903 at Dunbrody, RSA. Read Obituary
Anniversary:75th anniversary of the death of P. Gilbert Binns (65) d. 1951 at Salisbury, Rhodesia. Read Obituary

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1534Ignatius and six companions – Pierre Faber, Francis Xavier, Diego Laynez, Simão Rodriguez, Alonso Salmerón, Nicolás Bobadilla – took their first vows at a Mass celebrated by Faber at Montmartre in Paris.
1556On the banks of the St. Lawrence River, Leonard Garreau, a young Jesusit missionary, was mortally wounded by the Iroquois.
1591Gregory XIV by his Brief, Exponi nobis, canceled Sixtus V's decree whereby novices could only be admitted at the General or Provincial Congregation.
1615At Paris died Etiene Pasquier, jurist, a bitter enemy of the Society. His Catechisme des Jesuites equals in the coarseness of its invectives the violent language of Luther.
1726At Constantinople died Father James Cachod, Apostle of the Turks’ galley-slaves, among whom were many Christian captives.
1978Handwritten letter of Pope John Paul I to Fr. Arrupe on the availability of the Society to the service of the Church.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2026

Dominical Letter  d
Golden Number  13
Epact  xi
Solar Cycle 19
Letter of the Martyrology l
Roman Year of Indiction 4
Julian Period Year 6739
Years since the confirmation of the Society 486
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  470
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 5
Sunday Readings  Cycle  A
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 5 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    12 April