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July 2021

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: Social friendship (Watch video(Read Reflection)
"We pray that, in social, economic, and political situations of conflict, we may be courageous and passionate architects of dialogue and friendship."

8 Thursday
  greenThursday of the fourteenth week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle I [386] Gen 44:18-21, 23b-29; 45:1-5; Ps 105:16-17, 18-19, 20-21; Matt 10:7-15.
 Hours of the day.
[RM]Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Aquila and Priscilla (cf. Acts 18:1-2a) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:34th anniversary of the death of P. Thaddeus Walczek (81) d. 1987 at Johannesburg, RSA. Read Obituary
Anniversary:13th anniversary of the death of P. Joaquim Barata (83) d. 2008 at PĂłvoa de Varzim, Portugal. Read Obituary
Anniversary:10th anniversary of the death of P. Kevin McElhatton (77) d. 2011 at Boscombe, England. Read Obituary
Anniversary:3rd anniversary of the death of S. Manuel José Nelo (MOZ) (34) d. 2018 at Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Read Obituary
Birthday:41st birthday of P. Ernesto Miguel GRACIANO (born this day in 1980).
Jubilee:Crystal Jubilee of P. Nathanael MITI who celebrates 15 years of Priesthood today.

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1597Fr. Louis Froes, a Portuguese, who for 33 years labored in Japan amid privations, mishaps and trials of every kind, died at Nagasaki.
1833The Mission of Missouri is established.
1860Society of Jesus re-enters Scotland. The Church of the Sacred Heart is opened in Edinburgh.
1936A letter of Fr. General Ledochowski to the Provincials of the American Assistancy, on increasing the number of coadjutor brothers.
1991Ludwig Kaufmann, S.J. dies. He was a Swiss journalist, in Zurich, age 72, and editor of Orientierung.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2021

Dominical Letter  c
Golden Number  8
Epact  xvi
Solar Cycle 14
Letter of the Martyrology r
Roman Year of Indiction 14
Julian Period Year 6734
Years since the confirmation of the Society 481
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  465
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 0
Sunday Readings  Cycle  B
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 4 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    2 May