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March 2025

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For families in crisis (Read Reflection)
"Let us pray that broken families might discover the cure for their wounds through forgiveness, rediscovering each otherā€™s gifts, even in their differences."

6 Thursday
  violetThursday after Ash Wednesday.
Mass of the day. Preface of Lent I - IV
 [220] Deut 30:15-20; Ps 1:1-2, 3, 4+6; Luke 9:22-25.
Hours of the day.
Anniversary:72nd anniversary of the death of P. AntoĢnio JuĢlio Gomes (77) d. 1953 at Braga, Portugal. Read Obituary
Birthday:29th birthday of S. Victor ERNESTO (born this day in 1996).
Birthday:57th birthday of P. Matsepane MORARE (born this day in 1968).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1603Letter from Fr. General Acquaviva to the whole Society, representing that he and Fr. Bellarmine had left nothing undone to prevent the latter's promotion to the Cardinalate.
1832At Coimbra the obsequies of Carvalho were performed by Father Philip Delvaux, the body having remained unburied since May 5, 1782.
1922Missouri Province purchased "White House Farm". It becomes the site of a retreat center. It was so called because of a post Civil War movement to transfer the national capital from Washington to St. Louis, with the Farm serving as the Presidentā€™s home.
1933A letter of Fr. Ledochowski to all provincials urges the definition of the dogma of Mary as Mediatrix of All Graces.
1980William Bier, S.J. Psychologist, teacher at Fordham University, dies. He was a pioneer in the psychological testing of candidates.

 


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