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Thursday, 2nd April, 2026
Holy Thursday.


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April 2027

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: That art might be a gift that humanizes. (Watch video) (Read Reflection)
"Let us pray that art might be perceived as a true gift that humanizes us, lifts up the spirit, and helps us contemplate God’s beauty in creation."

Waxing Gibbous
17 Saturday
  whiteSaturday in the Third Week of Easter
Mass of the day. Preface of Easter I - V "...in this time."
Cycle I [278] Acts 9:31-42; Ps 116:12-13, 14-15, 16-17; John 6:60-69.
Hours of the day.
Birthday:44th birthday of -P. Lodewicus BARNARD (born this day in 1983).

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 2027

Dominical Letter  c
Golden Number  14
Epact  xxii
Solar Cycle 20
Letter of the Martyrology C
Roman Year of Indiction 5
Julian Period Year 6740
Years since the confirmation of the Society 487
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  471
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 6
Sunday Readings  Cycle  B
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 28 March
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    2 May