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April 2021

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: Fundamental rights (Watch video(Read Reflection)
"We pray for those who risk their lives while fighting for fundamental rights under dictatorships, authoritarian regimes and even in democracies in crisis."

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19 Monday
  whiteMonday in the Third Week of Easter
Mass of the day. Preface of Easter I - V "...in this time."
Cycle I [273] Acts 6:8-15; Ps 119:23-24, 26-27, 29-30; John 6:22-29.
Hours of the day.


Readings from the Common of Saints:
 
Anniversary:100th anniversary of the death of P. Michael McMahon (55) d. 1921 at Stonyhurst, Lancs, England. Read Obituary
Anniversary:81st anniversary of the death of F. Daniel Shields (72) d. 1940 at Rainhill, Merseyside, England. Read Obituary
Anniversary:59th anniversary of the death of P. Kenneth Flood (HIB) (31) d. 1962 at Dublin, Ireland. Read Obituary
Anniversary:34th anniversary of the death of P. Francis X Sharp (76) d. 1987 at Wimbledon, London, England. Read Obituary
Anniversary:3rd anniversary of the death of P. John O'Holohan (HIB) (95) d. 2018 at Zomba, Malawi. Read Obituary
Jubilee:Sapphire Jubilee of F. Lawrence MAKONORA who celebrates 45 years since professing Final Vows today.
Jubilee:Sapphire Jubilee of F. Benedict NGAWASEKE who celebrates 45 years since professing Final Vows today.
Jubilee:Sapphire Jubilee of P. Peter EDMONDS who celebrates 45 years since professing Final Vows today.

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1527At Alcala St. Ignatius was imprisoned for forty-two days.
1541St. Ignatius is elected general, after declining the first election. He accepts the second election of April 13th, after praying over the decision and with the advice of his Franciscan confessor.
1602At Tyburn, Ven. James Ducket, a layman, suffered death for publishing a work written by Robert Southwell.
1964Joseph Glose dies. A Jesuit Educator, at the center of the Jesuit Education Association for 21 years.
1993Joseph Sellinger dies. He had been President of Loyola College, Baltimore, for many years.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2021

Dominical Letter  c
Golden Number  8
Epact  xvi
Solar Cycle 14
Letter of the Martyrology r
Roman Year of Indiction 14
Julian Period Year 6734
Years since the confirmation of the Society 481
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  465
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 0
Sunday Readings  Cycle  B
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 4 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    2 May