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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."

24 Thursday
  whiteThursday in the Octave of Easter
 Mass of the Octave. Gloria, sequence optional, Preface of Easter I ("on this day"); double alleluia at dismissal.
 [264] Acts 3:11-26; Ps 8:2ab+5, 6-7, 8-9; Luke 24:35-48.
Hours of the day; Te Deum, double alleluia at dismissal.
[RM]Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture Sts. Mary Cleopas, Salome and the other women disciples of Jesus (cf. Jn. 19:25, Mk. 16:1-2) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:50th anniversary of the death of P. Phelim Rooney (70) d. 1975 at Oxford, England. Read Obituary
Anniversary:1st anniversary of the death of P. Peter Brook (BRI) (70) d. 2024 at Leeds, England. Read Obituary
Birthday:44th birthday of P. Nobert MUNEKANI (born this day in 1981).
Birthday:31st birthday of S. Manuel Chingole MÃRIO (born this day in 1994).
Birthday:38th birthday of S. Talent RUNGANO (born this day in 1987).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1774Christopher de Beaumont, Archbishop of Paris, wrote to Clement XIV, regretting the Brief of Suppression. In 1775 the French Cardinals declined to receive the Brief because it threatened disaster to the Church.
1774Christopher de Beaumont, Archbishop of Paris, wrote to Pope Clement XIV, regretting the Brief of Suppression.
1928The Jesuit Church of the Blessed Sacrament, in Hollywood, CA, while yet unfinished, holds an opening service. Cecil is born. deMille attends and Jackie Coogan does a reading.
1934Leo O'Donovan, S.J. is born. Theologian, President of Georgetown University.

 


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