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Sunday, 20th April, 2025
Easter Sunday (Gregorian Calendar).


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April 2026

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For priests in crisis. (Read Reflection)
"Let us pray for priests going through moments of crisis in their vocation, that they may find the accompaniment they need and that communities may support them with understanding and prayer."

Last Quarter
17 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.
Birthday:43rd birthday of -P. Lodewicus BARNARD (born this day in 1983).
Jubilee:Platinum Jubilee of P. Georg HIPLER who celebrates 70 years in the Society today.
Jubilee:Ruby Jubilee of P. Stephen BUCKLAND who celebrates 40 years of Priesthood today.

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1680Bl. Kateri Tekakwitha dies. After receiving the Eucharist and the Anointing of the Sick (Extreme Unction) she dies saying, "Jesus, I love you."
1761The French Parliament being appealed to in the Lavalette affair, demand a copy of the Institute. King Louis XV proposes that the Jesuits modify their Rule. Clement XIII writes to the king, expressing his alarm at the attacks on the Jesuits. On hearing of proposed modifications, he uttered the famous exclamation. "Sint ut sunt aut non sint."
1909America magazine begins publication. First issue on this day.
1927Decree that all Jesuits and Jesuit works of the Philippines be transferred from the Aragon Province to the Maryland/New York Province.

 

VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2026

Dominical Letter  d
Golden Number  13
Epact  xi
Solar Cycle 19
Letter of the Martyrology l
Roman Year of Indiction 4
Julian Period Year 6739
Years since the confirmation of the Society 486
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  470
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 5
Sunday Readings  Cycle  A
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 5 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    12 April