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April 2038

11 Sunday
  violetFifth Sunday of Lent.
Mass of the Sunday, or of the Third Scrutiny; Creed, Preface of Fifth Sunday (with Year "A" readings) or Lent I - II.
Yr A [34] Ezek 37:12-14; Ps 130:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8; Rom 8:8-11; John 11:1-45 or 11:3-7, 17, 20-27, 33b-45.
Hours of the Sunday.
Week 1 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:131st anniversary of the death of P. Peter Prestage (65) d. 1907 at Fort Victoria, Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:125th anniversary of the death of F. José António Martins (36) d. 1913 at Jette-St-Pierre, Brussels . Read Obituary
Anniversary:74th anniversary of the death of P. George Loseby (50) d. 1964 at Johannesburg, RSA. Read Obituary
Anniversary:70th 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 2038

Dominical Letter  c
Golden Number  6
Epact  xxiv
Solar Cycle 3
Letter of the Martyrology E
Roman Year of Indiction 1
Julian Period Year 6751
Years since the confirmation of the Society 498
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  482
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 17
Sunday Readings  Cycle  A
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 25 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    25 April