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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."

14 Friday
  whiteFriday in the Octave of Easter
 Mass of the Octave. Gloria, sequence optional, Preface of Easter I ("on this day"); double alleluia at dismissal.
 [265] Acts 4:1-12; Ps 118:1-2+4, 22-24, 25-27a; John 21:1-14.
Hours of the day; Te Deum, double alleluia at dismissal.
Anniversary:43rd anniversary of the death of P. Daniel Meagher (69) d. 1980 at Nairobi, Kenya. Read Obituary
Anniversary:22nd anniversary of the death of P. Raymond Lawler (HIB) (80) d. 2001 at Clongowes, Ireland. Read Obituary
Anniversary:20th anniversary of the death of P. Gregory Croft (83) d. 2003 at Harare, Zimbabwe. Read Obituary
Birthday:87th birthday of P. Peter HENRIOT (born this day in 1936).
Birthday:50th birthday of P. Afonso Inácio MUCANE (born this day in 1973).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1618St. John Berchman's father is ordained a priest; John himself was still a Novice.
1792The death of Maximilian Hell at Vienna. He was an astronomer who directed the royal observatory for 36 years.
1931Professed House in Madrid is set on fire, including the relics of St.Francis Borgia. Persecution against the Society.
1984Joseph E. O'Neill, S.J. dies. For 20 years, he edited Thought magazine.
1989Dominic Pandolfo, S.J. dies Brother, doorkeeper at St. Andrew-on-Hudson novitiate for many years.
1992The death of Marshall Moran, S.J., aged 85. He was the first Catholic priest allowed into Nepal in modern times. He founded St. Xavier School for Boys.
2015Death of Cardinal Roberto Tucci, age 93. Communications expert, With Vatican Radio, etc.

 


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