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March 2030

7 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.
  redSts Perpetua and Felicity, martyrs
Common of Martyrs
Readings from the Common of Saints: [538] Rom 8:31b-39 (#716.2); Ps 124:2-3, 4-5, 7-8 (#715.3); Matt 10:34-39 (#718.3).
Commemoration
Anniversary:29th anniversary of the death of P. John Counihan (84) d. 2001 at Lusaka, Zambia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:27th anniversary of the death of P. John Marbaix (71) d. 2003 at London, England. Read Obituary
Birthday:88th birthday of P. Stanislaus ROZMAN (born this day in 1942).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1581A Decree of the Fifth General Congregation binds the Professors of the Society to adhere to the doctrine of St. Thomas.
1675Jean Pierre Caussade, S.J., writer, is born. Traditional author of the Abandonment to Divine Providence.
1693The birth of Pope Clement XIII, a strong defender of the Society. 1801. The Brief of Pius VII, Catholicae Fidei, legalizes the Society of Jesus in Russia. Second Confirmation of the Society of Jesus.
1801"Second Conï¬rmation" Day: Pius VII in his brief Catholicae Fidei conï¬rmed Franciszek Kareu as Superior General of the Jesuits in Russia. Thereafter Pius VII wrote to Kereu as "General of the Society of Jesus."
1867Issuance of the corporate charter of Woodstock College. It would open two and a half years later.
1893Archbishop Thomas Roberts, S.J. is born in France. He learned he was Archbishop of Bombay from a reporter. A liberal bishop.
1980In India, at Sasaram in Patna/Bihar, the assassination of Fr. Matthew Mannaparambil, S.J., parish priest, aged 42.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2030

Dominical Letter  f
Golden Number  17
Epact  25
Solar Cycle 23
Letter of the Martyrology F
Roman Year of Indiction 8
Julian Period Year 6743
Years since the confirmation of the Society 490
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  474
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 9
Sunday Readings  Cycle  B
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 21 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    28 April