SAP Jesuit Seal ONLINE LITURGICAL CALENDAR
Province of Southern Africa (SAP)
of the Society of Jesus

 
SAP JESUIT DAILY ORDO
 

Yesterday | Today | Tomorrow


April 2022

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For health care workers (Watch video(Read Reflection)
"We pray for health care workers who serve the sick and the elderly, especially in the poorest countries; may they be adequately supported by governments and local communities."

4 Monday
  violetMonday in the Fifth Week of Lent
Mass of the day. Preface of the Passion I
 [251] Dan 13:1-9, 15-17, 19-30, 33-62 or 13:41c-62; Ps 23:1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6; John 8:1-11 (Year A or B) or Jn 8:12-20 (Year C).
Hours of the day.
  whiteSt Isidore, bishop and doctor of the Church
Common of Pastors, or Common of Doctors of the Church
Readings from the Common of Saints: [547] 2 Cor 4:1-2, 5-7 (#722.6); Ps 37:3-4, 5-6, 30-31 (#727.2); Luke 6:43-45 (#730.6).
Commemoration
Archdioceses of Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg, South Africa [SACBC]
   whiteSt Benedict’ ReligiousOptional 
Common of Holy Men and Women
Anniversary:65th anniversary of the death of P. Francis Naime (69) d. 1957 at Blackpool, England. Read Obituary
Anniversary:13th anniversary of the death of P. Manuel Joaquim Pereira (89) d. 2009 at Esposende, Portugal. Read Obituary

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1767The Society was expelled from all its houses in Spain and subjected to great cruelty.
1871There is plundering of the Jesuit house at rue de Sevres in Paris by the Communards.
1873In Mexico a law to expel the Society was proposed in Parliament.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2022

Dominical Letter  b
Golden Number  9
Epact  xxvii
Solar Cycle 15
Letter of the Martyrology H
Roman Year of Indiction 15
Julian Period Year 6735
Years since the confirmation of the Society 482
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  466
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 1
Sunday Readings  Cycle  C
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 17 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    24 April