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August 2025

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For mutual coexistence (Read Reflection)
"Let us pray that societies where coexistence seems more difficult might not succumb to the temptation of confrontation for ethnic, political, religious or ideological reasons."

8 Friday
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Mass of the memorial; preface of the weekday, or of the saint.
Cycle I [411] Deut 4:32-40; Ps 77:12-13, 14-15, 16+21; Matt 16:24-28.
Hours of the Memorial.
Common of Pastors: For Missionaries, or Common of Holy Men and Women: For Religious
Readings from the Common of Saints: [617] 1 Cor 2:1-10a (#728.2); Ps 96:1-2a, 2b-3, 7-8a, 10 (#721.5); Luke 9:57-62 (#742.19).
Anniversary:59th anniversary of the death of F. Gerhard Zocholl (39) d. 1966 at Marymount, Mt. Darwin, Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:57th anniversary of the death of P. William Weller (62) d. 1968 at Lusaka, Zambia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:37th anniversary of the death of P. Denis Mangan (61) d. 1988 at Chinhoyi, Zimbabwe. Read Obituary
Anniversary:35th anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Svec (67) d. 1990 at Bratislava, Slovakia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:33rd anniversary of the death of A. Francis Markall (87) d. 1992 at Harare, Zimbabwe. Read Obituary
Birthday:48th birthday of P. Wilfred M. SUMANI (born this day in 1977).
Birthday:35th birthday of S. Matthew SALABAKILE (born this day in 1990).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1581Anthony Possevino was received with extraordinary honors by Basilowicz, the Czar of Russia.
1581Father Anthony Possevino was received with extraordinary honors by Basilowicz, the Czar of Russia.
1834At London the Vicar Apostolic wrote to Propaganda that there were serious difficulties against the Jesuits having a church in London, which a benefactor offered to build. Gregory XVI then insisted that the Society was to have a church in the city.
1849In Rome, the Republicans (Mazzinians) defeated by the French,tried to set fire to the Roman College.
1949Letter of the Holy Office to Cardinal Cushing, on the Leonard Feeney case - extra ecclesiam nulla salus. The letter has this date on it, but was only made public later.
1989William Cunningham, S.J. dies Chicago, activist lawyer.
2008The death of Joseph Gelineau, S.J. pioneer on liturgical music, composer, singing the Psalms. Age. 87. Friend, composer for Taize, and Paris parish priest.

 


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