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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."

28 Friday
  whiteFriday in the Third Week of Easter
Mass of the day. Preface of Easter I - V "...in this time."
Cycle I [277] Acts 9:1-20; Ps 117:1, 2; John 6:52-59.
Hours of the day.
  white St Louis Grignion de Montfort, priestOptional
 (Common of Pastors: For Missionaries
Readings from the Common of Saints: [556A] 1 Cor 1:18-25; Ps 40:2+4, 7-8a, 8b-9, 10; Matt 28:16-20.)
  red St Peter Chanel, priest and martyrOptional
 (Common of Martyrs, or Common of Pastors: For Missionaries
Readings from the Common of Saints: [556] 1 Cor 1:18-25 (#722.2); Ps 117:1bc, 2 (#721.8); Mark 1:14-20 (#724.5).)
Archdiocese of Cape Town, South Africa
   whiteAnniversary of the Dedication of the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Flight into Egypt (1951)Feast
Mass of the Dedication of a Church, Gloria, proper readings [701-706], Peface of the Dedication of a Church II.
Hours of he Dedication, Te Deum.
Archdioceses of Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg, South Africa [SACBC]
   whiteSt Pius V, PopeOptional 
Common of Pastors
Anniversary:124th anniversary of the death of P. Anthony Boos (44) d. 1899 at Fort Victoria, Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:3rd anniversary of the death of P. Edward C.A. Dougherty (UEA) (79) d. 2020 at Philadelphia, USA.
Birthday:24th birthday of S. Edward J. MANGAPE (born this day in 1999).
Birthday:42nd birthday of P. Gregory MULOBELA (born this day in 1981).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1575At Rome died Father James Ceruto, who is said to have renewed his religious vows a thousand times a day.
1581Alexander Briant was arrested in London.
1767At Tarracona in Spain 19 of the novices of the Province of Aragon, undismayedby threats and ill-treatment, insist on accompanying the Fathers into exile in Italy.
1842The Republic of Colombia passed a law permitting Jesuits to return to that country some years after the universal restoration of the Society.

 


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