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April 2023

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For a non-violent culture (Watch video(Read Reflection)
"Let us pray for a more widespread culture of non-violence that will progress when countries and citizens alike resort less and less to the use of arms."

25 Tuesday
  redSt Mark, evangelistFeast
Mass of the feast; Gloria, preface of the feast.
Cycle I [555] 1 Pet 5:5b-14; Ps 89:2-3, 6-7, 16-17; Mark 16:15-20.
 Hours of the feast; Te Deum.
Mass of the feast; Gloria, Preface of Apostles II.
Hours of the feast; Te Deum
[RM]Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Mark, evangelist (cf. 2 Tm. 4:11b) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:131st anniversary of the death of P. Peter Aloy (51) d. 1892 at Quelimane, Portuguese Eastern Africa. Read Obituary

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1540Arrival in Lisbon of Xavier and Father Simon Rodriguez, both destined for India, but the latter was retained in Portugal by the King.
1603Fr. Gregory de Valentia, a Spanish Jesuit died at Naples. A renowned theologian, Pope Clement VIII honored him with the title "Doctor of Doctors."
1688Louis XIV, wanting a special Jesuit vicar-general for the French Jesuits, forbade all correspondence with the General and ordered all French Jesuits in Rome to return to France.
1762Fr. John de la Marche, sent by Fr.General, informed Fr. de Lavalette of the suspension incurred by him, and the summons to Rome to hear his sentence. Fr. de Lavalette signed his acceptance of the decree with deepest sorrow.
1915Pierre Rousselot, S.J. Professor at the Institut Catholique in Paris, is wounded and taken prisoner in WW I.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2023

Dominical Letter  A
Golden Number  10
Epact  viii
Solar Cycle 16
Letter of the Martyrology h
Roman Year of Indiction 1
Julian Period Year 6736
Years since the confirmation of the Society 483
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  467
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 2
Sunday Readings  Cycle  A
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 9 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    16 April