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November 2026

5 Thursday
  whiteAll Saints and Blessed of the Society of Jesus [SJ]
Outside SJ churches, Mass ad lib. with weekday readings.
Texts in the Jesuit Supplement. (Download Mass texts and Divine Office texts here)
Feast
Mass of the feast; Gloria, preface of the feast.
Yr A[SJ-Lect 2013] Deut 30:11-14 [LM 838]; Ps 16:1-2a+5, 7-8, 9-10, 11; Jn 12:23-26 [cf LM 718.5].
 Hours of the feast; Te Deum.
Anniversary:43rd anniversary of the death of F. Patrick Sherry (63) d. 1983 at Monze, Zambia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:17th anniversary of the death of F. José Ferreira Ormonde (86) d. 2009 at Soutelo, Portugal. Read Obituary
Anniversary:10th anniversary of the death of P. Raymond Armstrong (89) d. 2016 at Preston, Lancs, England. Read Obituary
Anniversary:8th anniversary of the death of P. Francis Hull (BRI) (93) d. 2018 at Preston, Lancs, England. Read Obituary
Anniversary:4th anniversary of the death of P. Francesco Spartaco Ciccotti (98) d. 2022 at San Paolo, Brazil. Read Obituary
Anniversary:3rd anniversary of the death of P. George Croft (SAP) (98) d. 2023 at Harare, Zimbabwe. Read Obituary

On this day in our Jesuit history...

All Saints and Blesseds of the Society of Jesus. Feast. Formerly, the Feast of the Holy Relics.
ALL SAINTS OF THE SOCIETY OF JESUS (Feast)

Today we remember all our companions who are now face to face with their Lord in unending happiness. We call to mind the power of God shining through human weakness and the reward given to those who, in the words of the Spiritual Exercises, “faithfully labour under the banner of Christ’s cross and have entered with him into glory”. In 2014, when the Society of Jesus celebrated the second centenary of its restoration, it had fifty-six saints (including four non-Jesuit collaborators) and 148 Blessed (including one candidate).

1605Guy Fawkes Day. The Gunpowder Plot is revealed to the Government as a Popish plot, and the Jesuits allegedly involved.
1615Opening of the Seventh General Congregation. Among the decrees were the following: that the Society is not bound to contribute to the support of those dismissed; that the biretta is not to be allowed to lay brothers.
1643Isaac Jogues sails from Manhattan for Europe.
1660In Persia died Father Alexander de Rhodes, the first missionary to penetrate into the Kingdoms of Tonkin and Siam (Vietnam) in the year 1627.
1660The death of Alexander de Rhodes, Jesuit missionary who arrived in what is now Vietnam in 1625.
1796In Russia, the death of Empress Catherine the Great, protectress of the Society. She reigned for 34 years.
1873At Rome the furniture of the Gesu Professed House was sold by auction. The only bidders were Jews from the Ghetto.
1877Regis University, then known as Las Vegas College, was established in Las Vegas, New Mexico.

 


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