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October 2086

6 Sunday
  greenTwenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mass of the Sunday; gloria, creed.
Yr A [139] Isa 5:1-7; Ps 80:9+12, 13-14, 15-16, 19-20; Phil 4:6-9; Matt 21:33-43.
 Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum.
Week 3 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:196th anniversary of the death of P. John Lea (52) d. 1890 at Edinburgh, Scotland. Read Obituary
Anniversary:138th anniversary of the death of P. Francis Madden (76) d. 1948 at Salisbury, Rhodesia. Read Obituary

On this day in our Jesuit history...

Blessed Diego de San Vitores, priest, martyr. Memorial 1552. Matteo Ricci is born.
1566Pedro Martinez, S.J., the first Jesuit to set foot in the USA is the first Jesuit to be martyred in the USA, in northern Florida, near what is now Jacksonville.
1773In London, Dr. James Talbot, the Apostolic Vicar, promulgated the Letter of Suppression of the Society, and sent copies to Maryland and Pennsylvania.
1973The death of Ignacio Iparraguirre in a fall in Rome. Expert on Ignatius and Jesuit spirituality.
1977In France, the death of Rene Charvet, age 94, veteran missionary in China. The moving homily was delivered by the deceased through a recording he made a few months before he died.
1985Three Jesuits are beatified, Diego de San Vitores, Jose Rubio, and Francis Garate.
1993Cardinal Victor Razafimahatratra, S.J. dies age 72, Archbishop of Antananarivo, Madagascar.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2086

Dominical Letter  f
Golden Number  16
Epact  xiv
Solar Cycle 23
Letter of the Martyrology P
Roman Year of Indiction 4
Julian Period Year 6799
Years since the confirmation of the Society 546
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  530
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 65
Sunday Readings  Cycle  A
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 31 March
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    7 April