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April 2094

25 Sunday
  whiteFourth Sunday of Easter
131st 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.
[RM]Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Mark, evangelist (cf. 2 Tm. 4:11b) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:202nd 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 2094

Dominical Letter  c
Golden Number  5
Epact  xiii
Solar Cycle 3
Letter of the Martyrology n
Roman Year of Indiction 12
Julian Period Year 6807
Years since the confirmation of the Society 554
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  538
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 73
Sunday Readings  Cycle  C
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 4 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    11 April