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July 2025

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For formation in discernment (Read Reflection)
"Let us pray that we might again learn how to discern, to know how to choose paths of life and reject everything that leads us away from Christ and the Gospel."

8 Tuesday

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Tuesday of the fourteenth week.

Mass of the day.

Cycle I

[384] Gen 32:23-33; Ps 17:1b, 2-3, 6-7, 8b+15; Matt 9:32-38.

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:

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

Anniversary:

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

Anniversary:

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

Anniversary:

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

Anniversary:

1^st anniversary of the death of P. Brian Porter (SAP) (91) d. 2024 at Harare, Zimbabwe.

Birthday:

45^th birthday of P. Ernesto Miguel GRACIANO (born this day in 1980).

Jubilee:

Pearl Jubilee of P. Antony X. SAHAYA who celebrates 30 years of Priesthood today.

Jubilee:

Crystal Jubilee of P. Emmanuel CHISANGA who celebrates 15 years in the Society today.

Jubilee:

Crystal Jubilee of P. Chilima MUNTANGA who celebrates 15 years in the Society today.

Jubilee:

Crystal Jubilee of P. Daniel KAMUZYU who celebrates 15 years in the Society 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 2025

Dominical Letter	e
Golden Number	12
Epact	*
Solar Cycle	18
Letter of the Martyrology	P
Roman Year of Indiction	3
Julian Period	Year 6738
Years since the confirmation of the Society	485
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius	469
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province	4
Sunday Readings	Cycle C
Weekday Readings	Cycle I
Gregorian Easter	20 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter	20 April