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August 2036

7 Thursday
  greenThursday of the eighteenth week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle II [410] Jer 31:31-34; Ps 51:12-13, 14-15, 18-19; 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:92nd anniversary of the death of F. Francis Bulak (48) d. 1944 at Katondwe, N. Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:30th anniversary of the death of P. John Pearson (94) d. 2006 at Middlesborough, England. Read Obituary
Anniversary:23rd anniversary of the death of E. Luis Ferreira da Silva (91) d. 2013 at Lifidzi, Rep. of Mozambique. Read Obituary
Anniversary:21st 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 222nd 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 2036

Dominical Letter  f e
Golden Number  4
Epact  ii
Solar Cycle 1
Letter of the Martyrology b
Roman Year of Indiction 14
Julian Period Year 6749
Years since the confirmation of the Society 496
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  480
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 15
Sunday Readings  Cycle  B
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 13 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    20 April