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April 2048

26 Sunday
  whiteFourth Sunday of Easter
85th 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 B [50] Acts 4:8-12; Ps 118:1+8-9, 21-23, 26+21+29; 1 John 3:1-2; John 10:11-18.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum.
Week 4 of the Psalter.
Birthday:98th birthday of P. Antoni F. BARANOWSKI (born this day in 1950).
Birthday:103rd birthday of P. Nigel JOHNSON (born this day in 1945).
Birthday:66th birthday of P. Albert MUGARI (born this day in 1982).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1541St. Francis Xavier, on this day, his 35th birthday, embarks from Lisbon for India, for a 13 month journey to Goa.
1648At Madrid, the death of Fr. John de Ripalda, an eminent theologian who held the chair of theology as Salamanca.
1849In Rome, revolutionaries searched for hidden Jesuits at Villa Macao, the country house near Porta Pia, where long before St. Aloysius and St. John Berchmans had come with the other Jesuit scholastics for weekly recreation.
1911Manresa Retreat House property bought, Staten Island. Fox Hill villa. A retreat house exclusively for laymen. Under Fr. Shealy, the first retreat was given on September 8th.
1921Saint Louis University’s radio station, WEW (We Enlighten the World) went on the air. It was only the second ratio station in the US.
1935Lumen Vitae, a center for catechetics and religious formation is founded in Brussels.
1941Joseph Stadelman, S.J. dies, founder of Xavier Society for the Blind.
1995Louis Schillebeckyx, S.J. dies, a missionary in India, and the brother of Dominican theologian, Edward. He was age 87 and had been Provincial.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2048

Dominical Letter  e d
Golden Number  16
Epact  xiv
Solar Cycle 13
Letter of the Martyrology P
Roman Year of Indiction 11
Julian Period Year 6761
Years since the confirmation of the Society 508
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  492
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 27
Sunday Readings  Cycle  B
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 5 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    5 April