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March 2024

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For new martyrs (Watch video(Read Reflection)
"Let us pray that those who risk their lives for the Gospel in various parts of the world might imbue the Church with their courage and missionary drive."

8 Friday
  violetFriday in the Third Week of Lent
114th International Women's Day (est. 1911)
Mass of the day. Preface of Lent I - IV
 [241] Hos 14:2-10; Ps 81:6c-8a, 8bc-9, 10-11ab, 14+17; Mark 12:28-34.
Hours of the day.
  whiteSt John of God, religious
Common of Holy Men and Women: For Religious, or For Those Who Work for the Underprivileged
Readings from the Common of Saints: [539] 1 John 3:14-18 (#740.16); Ps 112:1bc-2, 3-4, 5-7a, 7b-8, 9 (#739.7); Matt 25:31-40 (#742.13).
Commemoration
Anniversary:29th anniversary of the death of P. Arthur Clarke (79) d. 1995 at Lusaka, Zambia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:25th anniversary of the death of P. Dennis Flannery (68) d. 1999 at Dublin, Ireland. Read Obituary
Anniversary:19th anniversary of the death of P. Robert Kelly (79) d. 2005 at Lusaka, Zambia. Read Obituary

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1558Fr. Nicholas Guadan, disguised as a peddler, entered Scotland as a papal nuncio to strengthen Mary Queen of Scots in her allegiance to the faith.
1566The Diet of Augsburg, Germany, Peter Canisius, Jeronimo Nadal Diego Ledesma hold public disputations with the Reformation leaders. They were appointed by St. Pius V.
1836A Decree is issued whereby the Society of Jesus loses the property of the Holy House of Loyola. In the previous year, the Society was dissolved in Spain.
1890Oswald von Nell-Breuning, S.J. is born. He was an expert in the social teaching of the Church, and lived to be over 100 years old.
1916Letter of Fr. General Ledochowski, De Doctrina Sancti Thomae magis, magisque in Societate fovenda.
1982Mitchell Dahood, S.J. dies in Rome, Scripture scholar. President of Catholic Biblical Association, and wrote the commentary on the Psalms for the Anchor Bible.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2024

Dominical Letter  g f
Golden Number  11
Epact  xix
Solar Cycle 17
Letter of the Martyrology u
Roman Year of Indiction 2
Julian Period Year 6737
Years since the confirmation of the Society 484
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  468
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 3
Sunday Readings  Cycle  B
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 31 March
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    5 May