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April 2070

20 Sunday
  whiteFourth Sunday of Easter
107th World Day for Prayers for Priestly and Religious Vocations ('Good Shepherd' Sunday) (est. 1963)
Mass of the day, Gloria, Creed, Preface of Easter I - V.
Yr C [51] Acts 13:14, 43-52 Ps 100:1-2, 3, 5; Rev 7:9, 14b-17; John 10:27-30.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum.
Week 4 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:139th anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Hornig (75) d. 1931 at Bulawayo, S. Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:113th anniversary of the death of P. Christopher Wilmot (88) d. 1957 at Heythrop, England. Read Obituary
Anniversary:57th anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Groselj (69) d. 2013 at Nangoma, Zambia. Read Obituary
Birthday:120th birthday of P. Christopher CHATTERIS (born this day in 1950).
Birthday:118th 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 2070

Dominical Letter  e
Golden Number  19
Epact  xvii
Solar Cycle 7
Letter of the Martyrology s
Roman Year of Indiction 3
Julian Period Year 6783
Years since the confirmation of the Society 530
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  514
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 49
Sunday Readings  Cycle  C
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 30 March
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    4 May