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Wednesday, 17th September, 2025
St Robert Bellarmine SJ, bishop & doctor
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September 2026

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the care of water. (Read Reflection)
"Let us pray for a just and sustainable management of water, a vital resource, so that everyone may have equal access to it."

Last Quarter
4 Friday
  greenFriday of the twenty-second week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle II [435] 1 Cor 4:1-5; Ps 37:3-4, 5-6, 27-28, 39-40; Luke 5:33-39.
 Hours of the day.
[Season of Creation (1 Sep-4 Oct): Use optional Mass for the Care of Creation.]
[RM]Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Joseph, son of Jacob (cf. Gn. 30:22–24, 37; 39–50) [from the Roman Martyrology].
[RM]Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Moses, prophet and law giver (cf. Ex. 3:10) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:53rd anniversary of the death of P. John Diamond (69) d. 1973 at London, England. Read Obituary
Anniversary:23rd anniversary of the death of P. Desmond O'Loghlen (85) d. 2003 at Lusaka, Zambia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:20th anniversary of the death of P. Sean O'Connor (AOR) (86) d. 2006 at Nairobi, Kenya. Read Obituary

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1549Peter Canisius makes his final profession in Rome. 1606. Brief of Pope Paul V confirms our Institute.
1845Pierre Chazelle dies. Pioneer leader and first Superior of the restored Society in French Canada and the USA.
1973James Brodrick dies, in London, of the Irish Province, historian of the Society, biographer of Ignatius, Bellarmine, and Canisius.
1991Henri Cardinal de Lubac, S.J. dies, age 95. A theologian, once silenced, then vindicated. Surnaturel. He was created a cardinal in 1983.

 

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