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April 2025

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the use of the new technologies (Read Reflection)
"Let us pray that the use of the new technologies will not replace human relationships, will respect the dignity of the person, and will help us face the crises of our times."

11 Friday
  violetFriday in the Fifth Week of Lent
Mass of the day. Preface of the Passion I
 [255] Jer 20:10-13; Ps 18:2-3a, 3bc-4, 5-6, 7; John 10:31-42.
Hours of the day.
  redSt Stanislaus, bishop and martyr
Common of Martyrs, or Common of Pastors
Readings from the Common of Saints: [550] Rev 12:10-12a (#714.3); Ps 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9 (#715.2); John 17:11b-19 (#718.7).
Commemoration
Anniversary:118th anniversary of the death of P. Peter Prestage (65) d. 1907 at Fort Victoria, Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:112th anniversary of the death of F. José António Martins (36) d. 1913 at Jette-St-Pierre, Brussels . Read Obituary
Anniversary:61st anniversary of the death of P. George Loseby (50) d. 1964 at Johannesburg, RSA. Read Obituary
Anniversary:57th anniversary of the death of P. Raul Sarreira (79) d. 1968 at Vila Coutinho, Province of Mozambique. Read Obituary
Jubilee:Tin Jubilee of P. Hector MUKWATO who celebrates 10 years since professing Final Vows today.

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 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