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December 2040

4 Tuesday
  violetTuesday of the second week in Advent.
Mass of the day. Preface of Advent I
Cycle II [182] Isa 40:1-11; Ps 96:1-2, 3+10ac, 11-12, 13; Matt 18:12-14.
Hours of the day.
  whiteSt John Damascene, priest and doctor of the ChurchOptional
Anniversary:114th anniversary of the death of P. Aloysius Leboeuf (68) d. 1926 at Salisbury, Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:89th anniversary of the death of F. Thomas Tryers (72) d. 1951 at Heythrop, England. Read Obituary
Anniversary:51st anniversary of the death of P. John Magan (73) d. 1989 at New York, NY, USA. Read Obituary

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1674Pere Marquette, S.J. erects a mission on shores of Lake Michigan, which place later becomes the city of Chicago.
1848Two Jesuits land in Australia and begin our work there: Fr.Kranewitter and his companion.
1870The Roman College, appropriated by the Piedmontese government that had invaded Rome, was reopened as a state Liceo. The monogram of the Society over the main entrance was effaced.
1984Fr. Fernando Cardenal, the Nicaraguan Minister of Education, receives the document dismissing him from Society of Jesus. He will re-enter the Society in 1996.
1989John Magan, S.J. dies. He was a founder of the youth or high school retreat ministry at Gonzaga Retreat House, Monroe, NY. In his later years he was a missionary in Zimbabwe, and then a counselor for those addicted to drugs.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2040

Dominical Letter  A g
Golden Number  8
Epact  xvi
Solar Cycle 5
Letter of the Martyrology r
Roman Year of Indiction 3
Julian Period Year 6753
Years since the confirmation of the Society 500
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  484
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 19
Sunday Readings  Cycle  A
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 1 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    6 May