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April 2028

2 Sunday
  violetFifth Sunday of Lent.
Mass of the Sunday, or of the Third Scrutiny; Creed, Preface of Fifth Sunday (with Year "A" readings) or Lent I - II.
Yr C [36] Isa 43:16-21; Ps 126:1-2a, 2b-3, 4-5, 6; Phil 3:8-14; John 8:1-11.
Yr C Alt. (from Year A) [34] Ezek 37:12-14; Ps 130:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8; Rom 8:8-11; John 11:1-45 or 11:3-7, 17, 20-27, 33b-45.
 In Year C, during the week, Year A's gospel (Jn 11:1-45) may be used [1st R: 2 Kgs 4:18b-21, 32-37; Ps 17] Lect. [250]
Hours of the Sunday.
Week 1 of the Psalter.
23rd Anniversary of the death of Pope John Paul II (2005).
Anniversary:73rd anniversary of the death of F. António TimóTeo (86) d. 1955 at Caldinhas, Portugal. Read Obituary
Anniversary:20th anniversary of the death of F. Brutus Clay (90) d. 2008 at Chicago, USA. Read Obituary
Anniversary:12th anniversary of the death of F. Joe Mandaza (84) d. 2016 at Harare, Zimbabwe. Read Obituary
Birthday:35th birthday of S. Christopher Takudzwa TAMBURAYI (born this day in 1993).
Jubilee:Porcelain Jubilee of P. Joseph ARIMOSO who celebrates 20 years since professing Final Vows today.
Jubilee:Porcelain Jubilee of P. Lawrence DAKA who celebrates 20 years since professing Final Vows today.
23rd Anniversary of the death of Pope John Paul II (2005).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1568At Rome, the entrance of Blessed Rodolf Acquaviva, aged 17, into the novitiate of San Andrea, where St. Stanislaus was then a novice.
1640The death of Matthew Casimir Sarbiewski, S.J. called the "Polish Horace" because of his poetry.
1767In Spain, Charles III ordered the arrest of all the Jesuit Fathers and the sequestration of all their houses and goods, being enraged against the Society by a forged letter of the General (the work of De Choiseul), which spoke of him as illegitimate.
1802Joseph Schneller dies in Vienna, a famous Jesuit preacher.
1872Samuel Morse dies. He invented the telegraph, and also wrote anti-Catholic and anti-Jesuit literature.
1994Anthony Lawn, S.J. dies. Basically a prison chaplain, in 1985 he was invited to work for and be an actor in the film, The Mission.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2028

Dominical Letter  b A
Golden Number  15
Epact  iii
Solar Cycle 21
Letter of the Martyrology c
Roman Year of Indiction 6
Julian Period Year 6741
Years since the confirmation of the Society 488
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  472
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 7
Sunday Readings  Cycle  C
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 16 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    16 April