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April 2055

25 Sunday
  whiteSecond Sunday of Easter (Sunday of Divine Mercy) [Octave Day of Easter].
(Formerly known as Dominica in Albis (Sunday in White), Quasimodo Sunday or Low Sunday.)
Mass of the Sunday, Gloria, Creed, Preface of Easter I ("on this Easter day"); Easter Communicantes and Hanc igitur; double alleluia at dismissal.
Yr C [45] Acts 5:12-16; Ps 118:2-4, 13-15, 22-24; Rev 1:9-11, 12-13, 17-19; John 20:19-31.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum.
Evening Prayer II of the Sunday. The Easter Octave ends.
Week 2 of the Psalter.
[RM]Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Mark, evangelist (cf. 2 Tm. 4:11b) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:163rd 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 2055

Dominical Letter  c
Golden Number  4
Epact  ii
Solar Cycle 20
Letter of the Martyrology b
Roman Year of Indiction 3
Julian Period Year 6768
Years since the confirmation of the Society 515
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  499
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 34
Sunday Readings  Cycle  C
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 18 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    18 April