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April 2024

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the role of women (Watch video(Read Reflection)
"Let us pray that the dignity and worth of women be recognized in every culture, and for an end to the discrimination they face in various parts of the world."

12 Friday
  whiteFriday in the Second Week of Easter
Mass of the day. Preface of Easter I - V "...in this time."
Cycle II [271] Acts 5:34-42; Ps 27:1, 4, 13-14; John 6:1-15.
Hours of the day.
Archdioceses of Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg, South Africa [SACBC]
   whiteSt Zeno of Verona, BishopOptional 
Common of Pastors
Birthday:79th birthday of F. Benedict NGAWASEKE (born this day in 1945).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

St. Joseph Moscati, lay person, doctor, in Naples. Feast, in the New RM. Influenced by Jesuits and Jesuit parish.
1541A First edition of the Constitutions approved, and signed by the six companions present in Rome: Ignatius, Lainez, Salmeron, Codure, Broet, and Jay.
1573At Rome, the opening of the Third General Congregation during which Everard Mercurian was elected General.
1599Fr. Luis de Molina’s book De Scientia Media, received the approval of the Spanish Inquisition, but further inflamed theological controversies.
1671Francis Borgia, the 3rd General, is canonized by Pope Clement X. 1726. In Cairo, Claudio Sicard dies, a missionary and explorer of the Nile.
1977Bishop Vincent Kennally, S.J. dies Missionary to the Pacific Islands.
2010Beatification of Bernardo de Hoyas.

 


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