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August 2025

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For mutual coexistence (Read Reflection)
"Let us pray that societies where coexistence seems more difficult might not succumb to the temptation of confrontation for ethnic, political, religious or ideological reasons."

5 Tuesday
  greenTuesday of the eighteenth week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle I [408] Num 12:1-13; Ps 51:3-4, 5-6ab, 6cd-7, 12-13; Matt 14:22-36 or (Year A) 15:1-2, 10-14.
 Hours of the day.
  whiteThe Dedication of the Basilica of St Mary Major
Common of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Readings from the Common of Saints: [613] Rev 21:1-5a (#708.3); Judith 13:18, 19 (#709.2); Luke 11:27-28 (#712.10).
Optional
Anniversary:109th anniversary of the death of P. Salvator Blanca (81) d. 1916 at Palermo, Italy. Read Obituary
Anniversary:11th anniversary of the death of P. Michael O'Donnell (76) d. 2014 at Pickering, ON, Canada. Read Obituary

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1570A group of Spanish Jesuits arrive in Chesapeake Bay area, but are killed six months later.
1574At Santo Domingo, the shipwreck of seven Spanish Jesuits sailing for Mexico. They escaped death and eventually reached their destination.
1762The Parliament at Paris condemned the Society’s Institute as opposed to natural law, confiscated all Jesuit property and forbade the Jesuit habit and community life.
1762The Parliament at Paris condemned the Society's Institute as opposed to the natural law: laid its hand on all Jesuit property, and forbade the Jesuit habit and community life.
1915The Jesuit Curia, and Fr. General Ledochowski arrive in Zizers, Switzerland, their exile for security reasons during World War I.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2025

Dominical Letter  e
Golden Number  12
Epact  *
Solar Cycle 18
Letter of the Martyrology P
Roman Year of Indiction 3
Julian Period Year 6738
Years since the confirmation of the Society 485
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  469
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 4
Sunday Readings  Cycle  C
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 20 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    20 April