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October 2022

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For a Church open to everyone (Watch video(Read Reflection)
"We pray for the Church; ever faithful to, and courageous in preaching the Gospel, may the Church be a community of solidarity, fraternity and welcome, always living in an atmosphere of synodality."

7 Friday
  whiteOur Lady of the Rosary
Mass of the memorial; preface of the weekday, or of the saint.
Cycle II [465] Gal 3:7-14; Ps 111:1b-2, 3-4, 5-6; Luke 11:15-26.
Hours of the Memorial.
Common of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Readings from the Common of Saints: [653] Acts 1:12-14 (#708.1); Luke 1:46-47, 48-49, 50-51, 52-53, 54-55 (#709.5); Luke 1:26-38 (#712.4).
Archdiocese of Beira, Mozambique
   whiteOur Lady of the Rosary, Patronal Feast of the ArchdioceseFeast
Mass from the Common of the BVM, Gloria, readings from the Common of the BVM, preface of the BVM.
Anniversary:92nd anniversary of the death of P. John Lazarewicz (65) d. 1930 at Katondwe, N. Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:24th anniversary of the death of P. Anthony Froch (95) d. 1998 at Lusaka, Zambia. Read Obituary

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1571The Battle of Lepanto. Cervantes is wounded in it. Four priests and four brothers of the Society also took part, serving as chaplains to the sailors.
1699In the Gesu, Rome, the sixth and final translation of St. Ignatius' remains took place to the splendid altar-shrine designed by Br. Andrea Pozzo.
1819Charles Emmanuel IV dies. He had been King of Sardinia and Piedmont. He abdicated in 1802 and entered the Jesuits as a brother in 1815. He is buried in San Andrea Quirinale, in Rome.
1866Wlodimir Ledochowski is born. 26th General of the Society.
1934The deaths of Servants of God Emile Martínez and John Baptist Arconada, martyrs of Spain.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2022

Dominical Letter  b
Golden Number  9
Epact  xxvii
Solar Cycle 15
Letter of the Martyrology H
Roman Year of Indiction 15
Julian Period Year 6735
Years since the confirmation of the Society 482
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  466
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 1
Sunday Readings  Cycle  C
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 17 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    24 April