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October 2024

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For a shared mission (Watch video(Read Reflection)
"Let us pray that the Church continue to sustain a synodal lifestyle in every way, as a sign of co-responsibility, promoting the participation, communion and mission shared by priests, religious and laity."

9 Wednesday
  greenWednesday of the twenty-seventh week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle II [463] Gal 2:1-2, 7-14; Ps 117:1bc, 2; Luke 11:1-4.
 Hours of the day.
  redSt Denis, bishop and martyr, and companions, martyrs
Common of Martyrs
Readings from the Common of Saints: [654] 2 Cor 6:4-10 (#716.4); Ps 126:1bc-2ab, 2cd-3, 4-5, 6 (#715.4); Matt 5:13-16 (#742.2).
Optional
  whiteSt John Leonardi, priest
Common of Pastors, or Common of Holy Men and Women: For Those Who Work for the Underprivileged
Readings from the Common of Saints: [655] 2 Cor 4:1-2, 5-7 (#722.6); Ps 96:1-2, 2-3, 7-8, 10 (#721.5); Luke 5:1-11 (#724.7).
Optional
[RM]Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Abraham, patriarch (cf. Gn. 17:3-5) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:75th anniversary of the death of P. Vladimir ZukotýNsky (85) d. 1949 at Stara Wies, Poland . Read Obituary
Anniversary:37th anniversary of the death of P. Louis Haven (67) d. 1987 at Kabwe, Zambia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:19th anniversary of the death of P. James McPolin (HIB) (74) d. 2005 at Dublin, Ireland. Read Obituary

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1607Francis de Sales visits the chapel of Blessed Peter Faber whom he revered as a saint.
1627Jansenius lefdt Louvain for Salamanca to create an excitement against the Jesuits and prevent Philip IV from giving to them the large college of Madrid.
1820The 20th General Congregation of the Society opened. The first to be held by the restored Society, it elected Luigi Fortis as Superior General.
1820The 20th General Congregation opens. The first of the restored Society. Aloysius Fortis is elected the 20th Superior General.
1972Jose Maria Posada dies Columbia. Social worker and Provincial.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2024

Dominical Letter  g f
Golden Number  11
Epact  xix
Solar Cycle 17
Letter of the Martyrology u
Roman Year of Indiction 2
Julian Period Year 6737
Years since the confirmation of the Society 484
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  468
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 3
Sunday Readings  Cycle  B
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 31 March
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    5 May