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February 2023

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For parishes (Watch video(Read Reflection)
"Let us pray that parishes, placing communion at the centre, may increasingly become communities of faith, fraternity, and welcome towards those most in need."

5 Sunday
 greenFifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mass of the Sunday; Gloria, Creed, Pref. of Sunday.
Yr A [73] Isa 58:7-10; Ps 112:4-5, 6-7, 8-9; 1 Cor 2:1-5; Matt 5:13-16.
 Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum.
Week 1 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:109th anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Jacobs (76) d. 1914 at Sankt Andrä, Austria. Read Obituary
Birthday:22nd birthday of S. Martinho João ERNESTO (born this day in 2001).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1597Paul Miki, John Soan de Goto, and James Kisai are martyred on this day. Paul was a scholastic, arrested just before his ordination, age 33. John was a scholastic, age 19, and James was a brother, age 64. He had been married, and then his wife apostasized. He worked for and then joined the Jesuits. They had been dragged 600 miles through Japan, and are the first martyrs in Japan.
1820The death of Thaddeus Brozozowski, 19th General. He was the General after the Restoration.
1833The first Maryland Provincial is appointed, William McSherry.
1989Br. K.V. Peter dies in India, age 103. He had been given a government award as a Model Postmaster.
1991Pedro Arrupe, S.J., retired Superior General dies in Rome, age 84.

 


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