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July 2026

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For respect for human life. (Read Reflection)
"Let us pray for the respect and protection of human life in all its stages, recognizing it as a gift from God."

Last Quarter
8 Wednesday
  greenWednesday of the fourteenth week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle II [385] Hos 10:1-3, 7-8, 12; Ps 105:2-3, 4-5, 6-7; Matt 10:1-7.
 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:39th anniversary of the death of P. Thaddeus Walczek (81) d. 1987 at Johannesburg, RSA. Read Obituary
Anniversary:18th anniversary of the death of P. Joaquim Barata (83) d. 2008 at Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal. Read Obituary
Anniversary:15th anniversary of the death of P. Kevin McElhatton (77) d. 2011 at Boscombe, England. Read Obituary
Anniversary:8th anniversary of the death of S. Manuel José Nelo (MOZ) (34) d. 2018 at Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Read Obituary
Anniversary:2nd anniversary of the death of P. Brian Porter (SAP) (91) d. 2024 at Harare, Zimbabwe. Read Obituary
Birthday:46th birthday of P. Ernesto Miguel GRACIANO (born this day in 1980).
Jubilee:Porcelain Jubilee of P. Nathanael MITI who celebrates 20 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 2026

Dominical Letter  d
Golden Number  13
Epact  xi
Solar Cycle 19
Letter of the Martyrology l
Roman Year of Indiction 4
Julian Period Year 6739
Years since the confirmation of the Society 486
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  470
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 5
Sunday Readings  Cycle  A
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 5 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    12 April