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April 2063

18 Wednesday
  whiteWednesday in the Octave of Easter
 Mass of the Octave. Gloria, sequence optional, Preface of Easter I ("on this day"); double alleluia at dismissal.
 [263] Acts 3:1-10; Ps 105:1-2, 3-4, 6-7, 8-9; Luke 24:13-35.
Hours of the day; Te Deum, double alleluia at dismissal.
Anniversary:180th anniversary of the death of P. William Vierin (43) d. 1883 at Mopeia, Mozambique. Read Obituary
Anniversary:134th anniversary of the death of F. Francis Simonis (87) d. 1929 at Dunbrody, RSA. Read Obituary
Anniversary:78th anniversary of the death of P. Josip Weissgerber (CRO) (63) d. 1985 at Zagreb, Croatia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:68th anniversary of the death of P. John Monaghan (74) d. 1995 at Portland, USA. Read Obituary
Anniversary:55th anniversary of the death of P. Vital Dias Pereira (87) d. 2008 at Lisbon, Portugal.
Birthday:129th birthday of P. J. Paul BRASSIL (born this day in 1934).
Birthday:98th birthday of P. Sebastian M. MALAMBO (born this day in 1965).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1541Ignatius is elected General again, after refusing or declining the first election results.
1541On his 35th birthday, St. Francis Xavier embarked from the quay of the Tagus River known as the Place of Tears to go to India with two other Jesuits. The voyage took them 13 months.
1580Father Robert Parson, Edmund Campion and Brother Ralph Emerson and others set out from Rome for the English mission. They entered England by different routes and in different disguises.
1906Fr. General Luis Martin dies.
1949St. Benedict Center, Cambridge, MA, under Fr. Leonard Feeney, is placed under interdict.
1959Francis P. Donnelly, S.J. dies New York Province. Teacher, writer, author of many textbooks on English.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2063

Dominical Letter  g
Golden Number  12
Epact  *
Solar Cycle 28
Letter of the Martyrology P
Roman Year of Indiction 11
Julian Period Year 6776
Years since the confirmation of the Society 523
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  507
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 42
Sunday Readings  Cycle  B
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 15 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    22 April