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August 2025

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For mutual coexistence (Read Reflection)
"Let us pray that societies where coexistence seems more difficult might not succumb to the temptation of confrontation for ethnic, political, religious or ideological reasons."

7 Thursday
  greenThursday of the eighteenth week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle I [410] Num 20:1-13; Ps 95:1-2, 6-7, 8-9; Matt 16:13-23.
 Hours of the day.
  whiteSt Cajetan, priest
Common of Pastors, or Common of Holy Men and Women: For Religious
Readings from the Common of Saints: [616] Sir 2:7-13 (#737.12); Ps 112:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, 9 (#739.7); Luke 12:32-34 (#742.21).
Optional
  redSt Sixtus II, pope and martyr, and companions, martyrs
Common of Martyrs
Readings from the Common of Saints: [615] Wis 3:1-9 (#713.5); Ps 126:1bc-2ab, 2cd-3, 4-5, 6 (#715.4); Matt 10:28-33 (#718.2).
Optional
Anniversary:81st anniversary of the death of F. Francis Bulak (48) d. 1944 at Katondwe, N. Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:19th anniversary of the death of P. John Pearson (94) d. 2006 at Middlesborough, England. Read Obituary
Anniversary:12th anniversary of the death of E. Luis Ferreira da Silva (91) d. 2013 at Lifidzi, Rep. of Mozambique. Read Obituary
Anniversary:10th anniversary of the death of P. Manuel José Malvar Da Fonseca (73) d. 2015 at Braga, Portugal. Read Obituary
SJ NOTE:Monthly Mass for the needs of the Church and the Society should be offered on August 7, the 211th anniversary of the restoration of the Society (1814).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1606Father Francis Suarez' book, De Censuris, with passages interpolated by some enemy of the Society, was put on the Index.
1635Friedrich von Spee, S.J. dies, age 44. Being asked why his hair was all white at 30, he replied that he had attended at the gallows about 100 persons accused of witchcraft, many of them children, and he knew all to be innocent. He was the first to attack and disturb the then general belief in witchcraft. Also a famed poet. Author of Cautio Criminalis.
1814Pope Pius VII in the bula Sollicitudo Omnium Ecclesiarum approved the restoration of the Society of Jesus.
1814The Restoration of the Society through the world was proclaimed by Pius VII in his Bull Sollicitudo omnium ecclesiarum. Eighty six aged Fathers of the Old Society were present on the occasion in the Gesu, where the Bull was read, with acclamations of joy. Restoration Day. The Inquisition and Index of forbidden books were also reconstituted.
1879The New York Mission and the Maryland Province are joined to constitute the New York Province. On 19 August 1880 it will be re- named the Maryland/New York Province.
1879The New York Province was established.
1962A Letter of Fr. Janssens to all major superiors on the Study and Use of Latin.
1981Father General Arrupe suffers a stroke upon his return from the Philippines, at the Rome airport.

 


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