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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."

3 Monday
  violetMonday of Holy Week
Mass of the day; Preface of the Passion II
 [257] Is 42:1-7; Ps 27:1, 2, 3, 13-14; John 12:1-11.
Hours of the day
Anniversary:82nd anniversary of the death of P. Wilfred Hopkins (68) d. 1941 at Old Windsor, England. Read Obituary
Anniversary:25th anniversary of the death of P. Gerald McEnhill (73) d. 1998 at Rothwell Farm, Kutama, Zimbabwe. Read Obituary
Birthday:43rd birthday of F. Ngonidzashe EDWARD (born this day in 1980).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1583Jerome Nadal, S.J. dies who had been a student at Paris with Ignatius and Xavier. He died on Easter Sunday, aged 73 in the novitiate of San Andrea, Rome. He promulgated the Constitutions throughout Europe.
1622Solemn profession of Peter Claver, in Cartagena, age 42. Petrus Claver, ethiopum semper servus.
1767Fr. Joseph Pignatelli was expelled from Spain along with all other Jesuits there and at age 30 began his career of holding together a suppressed Society. At age 57, he once again saw the Society permitted to accept novices but he did not live to see its Restoration in 1814.
1767St. Joseph Pignatelli was expelled from Spain along with all other Jesuits there. He began his career of holding together the suppressed Society at age 30, and once again saw the Society permitted to acceptnovices when he was 57 years old, but he did not live to see its restoration in 1814.
1876Johann Cardinal Franzelin, S.J. created a cardinal on this day. He was a theologian of Vatican I, linguist, professor of Scripture and dogma.
1960The death of Fr. Edward P. Dowling, friend of Bill Wilson, the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous.

 


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