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April 2022

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For health care workers (Watch video(Read Reflection)
"We pray for health care workers who serve the sick and the elderly, especially in the poorest countries; may they be adequately supported by governments and local communities."

13 Wednesday
  violetWednesday of Holy Week
Mass of the day; Preface of the Passion II
 [259] Is 50:4-9a; Ps 69:8-10, 21-22, 31+33-34; Matt 26:14-25.
Hours of the day
Anniversary:51st anniversary of the death of P. Luciano Ribeiro (61) d. 1971 at Tete, Province of Mozambique. Read Obituary
Anniversary:32nd anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Dinley (76) d. 1990 at Boscombe, England. Read Obituary
Anniversary:24th anniversary of the death of P. Edward Kilbride (HIB) (86) d. 1998 at Limerick, Ireland. Read Obituary

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1506Peter Faber is born in Savoy, the first companion of Ignatius. He was born six days after Xavier was born.
1561Pius IV, by a special Brief, allowed the Society to erect houses within a distance of l40 yards (cannae) from the houses of other Religious Orders.
1853Loyola College, Baltimore, is chartered.
1979James W. Naughton, S.J. dies Secretary of the Society, 1950-67.
1981Fr. Godofredo Alingal, S.J. is shot and killed in his rectory in Kibawe, Philippines. He defended the rights of poor farmers. Age 59.
2004Bishop Martin Neylon, S.J. dies in New York. He had been director of Novices and then bishop in the Caroline-Marshall Islands.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2022

Dominical Letter  b
Golden Number  9
Epact  xxvii
Solar Cycle 15
Letter of the Martyrology H
Roman Year of Indiction 15
Julian Period Year 6735
Years since the confirmation of the Society 482
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  466
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 1
Sunday Readings  Cycle  C
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 17 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    24 April