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August 2061

7 Sunday
  greenNineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mass of the Sunday; gloria, creed.
Yr C [117] Wis 18:6-9; Ps 33:1+12, 18-19, 20-22; Heb 11:1-2, 8-19 or 11:1-2, 8-12; Luke 12:32-48 or 12:35-40.
 Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum.
Week 3 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:117th anniversary of the death of F. Francis Bulak (48) d. 1944 at Katondwe, N. Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:55th anniversary of the death of P. John Pearson (94) d. 2006 at Middlesborough, England. Read Obituary
Anniversary:48th anniversary of the death of E. Luis Ferreira da Silva (91) d. 2013 at Lifidzi, Rep. of Mozambique. Read Obituary
Anniversary:46th 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 247th 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 2061

Dominical Letter  b
Golden Number  10
Epact  viii
Solar Cycle 26
Letter of the Martyrology h
Roman Year of Indiction 9
Julian Period Year 6774
Years since the confirmation of the Society 521
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  505
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 40
Sunday Readings  Cycle  C
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 10 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    10 April