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November 2023

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the Pope (Watch video(Read Reflection)
"Let us pray for the Pope that, with the help of the Holy Spirit, he may continue to accompany in the faith the flock entrusted to him."

6 Monday
  greenMonday of the thirty-first week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle I [485] Rom 11:29-36; Ps 69:30-31, 33-34, 36-37; Luke 14:12-14.
 Hours of the day.
The Commemoration of All the Departed of the Society of Jesus [SJ]
(Post-2013)
Texts in the Jesuit Supplement (Download here)

Readings from the Common of Saints: Rom 14:7-9, 10c-12, Ps 116 (114-115):5-6, 10-11, 15-16ac, John 6:37-40
Optional
Archdioceses of Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg, South Africa [SACBC]
   whiteAll Saints of AfricaMemorial 
Common of Holy Men and Women
Archdiocese of Harare, and Diocese of Chinhoyi, Zimbabwe [ZCBC]
   whiteBl. Rupert Mayer, Jesuit priest of Germany
Anniversary:27th anniversary of the death of F. Michael Andriejauskas (82) d. 1996 at Harare, Zimbabwe. Read Obituary
Anniversary:17th anniversary of the death of P. Waldyr Santos (69) d. 2006 at Fonte Boa, Rep. of Mozambique. Read Obituary
Anniversary:9th anniversary of the death of F. Canisius Chishiri (66) d. 2014 at Harare, Zimbabwe. Read Obituary
Anniversary:7th anniversary of the death of P. Ezequiel Gwembe (75) d. 2016 at Ulóngwe, Chapotera / Lifidzi, Rep. of Mozambique. Read Obituary
SJ NOTE: Monthly Mass for deceased Jesuits should be offered on November 6 (or 7).

On this day we remember all the departed of the Province, especially those who have died since this feast's celebration last year, in particular:

12 Nov  P. John Dooley (HIB) (92) d. 2022 at Dublin, Ireland. Read Obituary
7 Feb  P. JoseÌ Augusto Alves de Sousa (POR) (89) d. 2023 at Lisbon, Portugal. Read Obituary
10 Mar  F. Michael Bennett (UWE) (88) d. 2023 at Great Falls, MT, USA. Read Obituary
1 May  P. Manuel Serra Ferreira (POR) (84) d. 2023 at Lisbon, Portugal. Read Obituary
1 Aug  F. Gabriel McKinney (SAP) (89) d. 2023 at Lusaka, Zambia. Read Obituary
16 Aug  F. Paul A. Desmarais (SAP) (78) d. 2023 at Pickering, ON, Canada. Read Obituary
23 Aug  S. Belmiro C. Francisco Molande (SAP) (28) d. 2023 at Angonia, Mozambique. Read Obituary
23 Aug  P. Daniel Kamuzyu (SAP) (41) d. 2023 at Angonia, Mozambique. Read Obituary
18 Sep  P. Klaus CieszynÌski (SAP) (85) d. 2023 at Lusaka, Zambia. Read Obituary
3 Oct  P. Brian Enright (SAP) (86) d. 2023 at Harare, Zimbabwe. Read Obituary
12 Oct  P. Oskar Wermter (SAP) (81) d. 2023 at Harare, Zimbabwe. Read Obituary
5 Nov  P. George Croft (SAP) (98) d. 2023 at Harare, Zimbabwe. Read Obituary

On this day in our Jesuit history...

The Commemoration of All the Departed of the Society of Jesus (Optional Memorial)

In the Constitutions, Jesuits are asked to pray in a special way for their departed companions. When a member of the Society dies, usually all the priests of that particular community celebrate Mass for his soul, while the others offer a special prayer for him. Further, a “notice that the same should be done, ought to be sent to the other places of the Society which the superior thinks proper, so that charity toward the departed no less than toward the living may be shown in our Lord†(Cons. [601]). In this spirit of fraternal charity, the Society wishes to commemorate each year and to pray for the eternal repose of all her members who have gone to meet Jesus, “the Alpha and the Omegaâ€.

1614The death in Nagasaki, Japan, of Servant of God James de Mesquita who died before being exiled from that country where he had been a missionary.
1789John Carroll is appointed first bishop of Baltimore, 1789, the diocese of Baltimore is erected by Pius VI. He is consecrated at Lulworth Castle on August 15, 1790. Ex-Jesuit because of the Suppression.
1857Birth of Jon Sveinsson Nonni, S.J. Born in Iceland, he lived his childhood there, and then lived in Denmark, and France. His stories of childhood in Iceland have been translated into forty languages.
1916The first lecture at the Fordham School of Sociology and Social Service is given by Terence Shealy, S.J., in the Woolworth Building.
1922Hieronymus Noldin, S.J. dies, age 85. He wrote a Handbook of Moral Theology, and Theologia Moralis..
1982Pope John Paul II visits the Santa Casa of Loyola, the first such visit by a Pope. He also visits Xavier's castle.
1986Neil Twombly, S.J. dies. Advocate of social justice, and editor of The Blueprint of the South.
2006Waldyr dos Santos, S.J. and lay missionary Idalina Gomes murdered in Mozambique by bandits – two others wounded.

 


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