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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."

20 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.
Archdioceses of Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg, South Africa [SACBC]
   whiteSt Marcellinus, BishopOptional 
Common of Pastors
Anniversary:91st anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Hornig (75) d. 1931 at Bulawayo, S. Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:65th anniversary of the death of P. Christopher Wilmot (88) d. 1957 at Heythrop, England. Read Obituary
Anniversary:9th anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Groselj (69) d. 2013 at Nangoma, Zambia. Read Obituary
Birthday:72nd birthday of P. Christopher CHATTERIS (born this day in 1950).
Birthday:70th birthday of P. O. Kenneth JOHNSON (born this day in 1952).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1586The first and trial edition of the Ratio Studiorum was issued under Fr. General Claudio Acquaviva.
1586The first Ratio Studiorum was issued under Father General Claude Aquaviva.
1842Jesuits return to Canada. Superior Peter Chazelle is appointed. 1864. Father Peter de Smet left St. Louis to evangelize the Sioux Indians.
1893Robert I. Gannon, S.J. is born. Staten Island. He was President of Fordham University, and a famous after dinner speaker.
1955Pedro Leturia, S.J. dies Rome, historian. He was the founding director of the Archivum Historicum Societatis, Jesu.
1996Francis McCool, S.J. dies. He had been a professor of Scripture at the Biblicum in Rome.

 


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