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April 2022

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For health care workers (Watch video(Read Reflection)
"We pray for health care workers who serve the sick and the elderly, especially in the poorest countries; may they be adequately supported by governments and local communities."

19 Tuesday
  whiteTuesday in the Octave of Easter
 Mass of the Octave. Gloria, sequence optional, Preface of Easter I ("on this day"); double alleluia at dismissal.
 [262] Acts 2:36-41; Ps 33:4-5, 18-19, 20+22; John 20:11-18.
Hours of the day; Te Deum, double alleluia at dismissal.
Anniversary of the election of Pope Benedict XVI (2005) 
Anniversary:101st anniversary of the death of P. Michael McMahon (55) d. 1921 at Stonyhurst, Lancs, England. Read Obituary
Anniversary:82nd anniversary of the death of F. Daniel Shields (72) d. 1940 at Rainhill, Merseyside, England. Read Obituary
Anniversary:60th anniversary of the death of P. Kenneth Flood (HIB) (31) d. 1962 at Dublin, Ireland. Read Obituary
Anniversary:35th anniversary of the death of P. Francis X Sharp (76) d. 1987 at Wimbledon, London, England. Read Obituary
Anniversary:4th anniversary of the death of P. John O'Holohan (HIB) (95) d. 2018 at Zomba, Malawi. Read Obituary

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 2022

Dominical Letter  b
Golden Number  9
Epact  xxvii
Solar Cycle 15
Letter of the Martyrology H
Roman Year of Indiction 15
Julian Period Year 6735
Years since the confirmation of the Society 482
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  466
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 1
Sunday Readings  Cycle  C
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 17 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    24 April