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August 2023

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For World Youth Day (Watch video(Read Reflection)
"Let us pray that the World Youth Day in Lisbon will help young people to set out on the journey, witnessing to the Gospel with their own lives."

6 Sunday
  whiteTransfiguration of the LordFeast
Mass of the Feast; gloria, preface of the Feast
 Transfiguration [614] Dan 7:9-10, 13-14; Ps 97:1-2, 5-6, 9; 2 Pet 1:16-19 (Only 2 readings on weekdays.); Mt 17:1-9 (A); Mk 9:2-10 (B); Lk 9:28b-36 (C)
 Hours of the Feast; Te Deum.
Week 2 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:45th anniversary of the death of P. Edward Callaghan (56) d. 1978 at Liverpool, England. Read Obituary
Anniversary:31st anniversary of the death of P. Thomas O'Brien (60) d. 1992 at Dublin, Ireland. Read Obituary
Birthday:92nd birthday of P. Norbert GILLE (born this day in 1931).
Birthday:55th birthday of P. John MWELWA (born this day in 1968).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1552At Vienna, the death of Claude Le Jay. Peter Canisius preached at his funeral.
1573Pope Gregory XIII published his Bull "Postquam Deo placuit," which founded the German College.
1573Pope Gregory XIII published his Bull Postquam Deo placuit, which founded the German College.
1651Francois Fenelon B Jesuit educated theologian/spiritual writer.
1762A Decree of the French Parliament was published accusing the Society of every heresy, every crime, every infamy, and confiscating all its property.
1816Letter of Thomas Jefferson to John Adams. "I dislike with you the restoration of the Jesuits, because it makes a retrograde step from light toward darkness."
1897Jerome D’Souza is born in India. He was a Rector, diplomat, worked at the United Nations.
1945Hiroshima - atomic destruction. A pilot, Robert Lewis, later enters the Jesuits. Fr. Arrupe aids the injured.
1967August 6-l9th. Santa Clara Conference of the American Assistancy on the "Total Formation of the Jesuit Priest."
2000Jesuit Bishop Michael Kaniecki, of Fairbanks, Alaska, dies of heart attack.

 


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