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April 2023

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For a non-violent culture (Watch video(Read Reflection)
"Let us pray for a more widespread culture of non-violence that will progress when countries and citizens alike resort less and less to the use of arms."

11 Tuesday
  whiteTuesday in the Octave of Easter
 Mass of the Octave. Gloria, sequence optional, Preface of Easter I ("on this day"); double alleluia at dismissal.
 [262] Acts 2:36-41; Ps 33:4-5, 18-19, 20+22; John 20:11-18.
Hours of the day; Te Deum, double alleluia at dismissal.
Anniversary:116th anniversary of the death of P. Peter Prestage (65) d. 1907 at Fort Victoria, Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:110th anniversary of the death of F. José António Martins (36) d. 1913 at Jette-St-Pierre, Brussels . Read Obituary
Anniversary:59th anniversary of the death of P. George Loseby (50) d. 1964 at Johannesburg, RSA. Read Obituary
Anniversary:55th anniversary of the death of P. Raul Sarreira (79) d. 1968 at Vila Coutinho, Province of Mozambique. Read Obituary

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1542St. Ignatius sent Pedro Ribadenaira, aged fifteen, from Rome to Paris for his studies. Pedro had been admitted into the Society in l540.
1573At the Third General Congregation, Pope Gregory XIII suggests that we elect a non-Spanish to be General. Eventually the Belgian Mercurian will be elected.
1607In China died Brother Benito Goes.
1632At Lima, Peru, Fr. Ruiz de Montoya died. A Portuguese, he was called the Apostle of Paraguay, for he converted thousands.
1673At Lima died Ven. Father Francis de Castillo, a Portuguese, justly regarded as the Apostle of Peru.
1985Translation of the body of Fr. Felice Capello, "the confessor of Rome" to the Church of St. Ignatius near the confessional he occupied almost daily for thirty years. He died in 1962.
2016Death of Fr. John Guenter Gerhartz.

 


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