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July 2023

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For a Eucharistic life (Watch video) (Read Reflection)
"Let us pray that Catholics place at the centre of their lives the Eucharistic Celebration, which transforms human relationships profoundly and opens up an encounter with God and their brothers and sisters."

8 Saturday

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Saturday of the thirteenth week.

Mass of the day.

Cycle I

[382] Gen 27:1-5, 15-29; Ps 135:1b-2, 3-4, 5-6; Matt 9:14-17.

Hours of the day.

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Saturday Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Optional

[RM]

Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Aquila and Priscilla (cf. Acts 18:1-2a) [from the Roman Martyrology].

Anniversary:

36^th anniversary of the death of P. Thaddeus Walczek (81) d. 1987 at Johannesburg, RSA.

Anniversary:

15^th anniversary of the death of P. Joaquim Barata (83) d. 2008 at Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal.

Anniversary:

12^th anniversary of the death of P. Kevin McElhatton (77) d. 2011 at Boscombe, England.

Anniversary:

5^th anniversary of the death of S. Manuel José Nelo (MOZ) (34) d. 2018 at Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

Birthday:

43^rd birthday of P. Ernesto Miguel GRACIANO (born this day in 1980).

Jubilee:

Golden Jubilee of P. David DRYDEN who celebrates 50 years of Priesthood today.

Jubilee:

Golden Jubilee of P. Paul EDWARDS who celebrates 50 years of Priesthood today.

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1597

Fr. Louis Froes, a Portuguese, who for 33 years labored in Japan amid privations, mishaps and trials of every kind, died at Nagasaki.

1833

The Mission of Missouri is established.

1860

Society of Jesus re-enters Scotland. The Church of the Sacred Heart is opened in Edinburgh.

1936

A letter of Fr. General Ledochowski to the Provincials of the American Assistancy, on increasing the number of coadjutor brothers.

1991

Ludwig Kaufmann, S.J. dies. He was a Swiss journalist, in Zurich, age 72, and editor of Orientierung.

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