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February 2023

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For parishes (Watch video(Read Reflection)
"Let us pray that parishes, placing communion at the centre, may increasingly become communities of faith, fraternity, and welcome towards those most in need."

8 Wednesday
 greenWednesday of the fifth week in Ordinary Time.
9th International Day of Prayer and Awareness Against Human Trafficking (est. 2015)
 Mass ad lib.
Cycle I [331] Gen 2:4b-9, 15-17; Ps 104:1-2a, 27-28, 29bc-30; Mark 7:14-23.
 Hours of the day.
  whiteSt Jerome Emiliani, priest
Common of Holy Men and Women: For Teachers
(Readings from the Common of Saints: [529] Tob 12:6-13 (#737.8); Ps 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9, 10-11 (#739.5); Mark 10:17-30 or 10:17-27 (#742.17).
Optional
  whiteSt Josephine Bakhita, virgin
Common of Virgins
(Readings from the Common of Saints: [529A] 1 Cor 7:25-35 (#734.1); Ps 45:11-12, 14-15, 16-17 (#733.1); Matt 25:1-13 (#736.2).
Optional
Anniversary:6th anniversary of the death of P. Thomas Jackson (ZIM) (92) d. 2017 at Harare, Zimbabwe. Read Obituary

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1550Julius III (Cardinal del Monte) ascended the Papal Chair. To him the Society owes the Confirmation of its Institute.
1885Isidore Boudreaux dies in Chicago. He was a Master of Novices at Florissant, from 1857-80, and was the first to enter the Society from our college in Missouri.
1890At Rome in the Palazzo Barberini, the death of Cardinal Joseph Pecci, the brother of Pope Leo XIII. He left the Society in 1847, but some forty years later was readmitted by the Pope's desire.
1957Pierre Scheuer, S.J. dies Louvain, philosopher.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2023

Dominical Letter  A
Golden Number  10
Epact  viii
Solar Cycle 16
Letter of the Martyrology h
Roman Year of Indiction 1
Julian Period Year 6736
Years since the confirmation of the Society 483
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  467
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 2
Sunday Readings  Cycle  A
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 9 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    16 April