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April 2025

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the use of the new technologies (Read Reflection)
"Let us pray that the use of the new technologies will not replace human relationships, will respect the dignity of the person, and will help us face the crises of our times."

21 Monday
  whiteMonday in the Octave of Easter
 Mass of the Octave. Gloria, sequence optional, Preface of Easter I ("on this day"); double alleluia at dismissal.
 [261] Acts 2:14, 22-32; Ps 16:1-2a+5, 7-8, 9-10, 11; Matt 28:8-15.
Hours of the day; Te Deum, double alleluia at dismissal.
Anniversary:134th anniversary of the death of F. Francis Prihoda (49) d. 1891 at Boroma, Portuguese Eastern Africa. Read Obituary
Anniversary:10th anniversary of the death of F. Michael Hayward (89) d. 2015 at Preston, Lancs, England. Read Obituary

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1541In Rome the first Fathers made a triduum of prayer before electing the first General. On April 7th the sealed votes were opened, and all had chosen Ignatius for superior. St. Francis Xavier's vote was dated March 15, 1540.
1586A draft of the lst Ratio Studiorum is sent by Claudio Acquaviva to all Provinces.
1618Pedro Paez, S.J. discovers the source of the Blue Nile.
1665At Bordeaux the death of Fr. John Surin, who entered the Society at the age of 15. He was a man of great sanctity and venerated after death as a saint. For 20 years he was cruelly tormented by evil spirits, after exorcizing certain Religious in a convent at Loudon.
1926Letter of Fr. General Ledochowski De Usu Machinae Photographicae. Cameras should belong to the house, not the individual. They are not to be for recreation or time spent on trifles rather than for the greater glory of God.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2025

Dominical Letter  e
Golden Number  12
Epact  *
Solar Cycle 18
Letter of the Martyrology P
Roman Year of Indiction 3
Julian Period Year 6738
Years since the confirmation of the Society 485
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  469
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 4
Sunday Readings  Cycle  C
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 20 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    20 April