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April 2051

3 Monday
  whiteMonday in the Octave of Easter
 Mass of the Octave. Gloria, sequence optional, Preface of Easter I ("on this day"); double alleluia at dismissal.
 [261] Acts 2:14, 22-32; Ps 16:1-2a+5, 7-8, 9-10, 11; Matt 28:8-15.
Hours of the day; Te Deum, double alleluia at dismissal.
Anniversary:110th anniversary of the death of P. Wilfred Hopkins (68) d. 1941 at Old Windsor, England. Read Obituary
Anniversary:53rd anniversary of the death of P. Gerald McEnhill (73) d. 1998 at Rothwell Farm, Kutama, Zimbabwe. Read Obituary
Birthday:71st 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 2051

Dominical Letter  A
Golden Number  19
Epact  xvii
Solar Cycle 16
Letter of the Martyrology s
Roman Year of Indiction 14
Julian Period Year 6764
Years since the confirmation of the Society 511
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  495
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 30
Sunday Readings  Cycle  B
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 2 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    7 May