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April 2024

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the role of women (Watch video(Read Reflection)
"Let us pray that the dignity and worth of women be recognized in every culture, and for an end to the discrimination they face in various parts of the world."

6 Saturday
  whiteSaturday in the Octave of Easter
 Mass of the Octave. Gloria, sequence optional, Preface of Easter I ("on this day"); double alleluia at dismissal.
 [266] Acts 4:13-21; Ps 118:1+14-15ab, 16-18, 19-21; Mark 16:9-15.
Hours of the day; Te Deum, double alleluia at dismissal.
Anniversary:127th anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Wright (46) d. 1897 at Blackpool, England. Read Obituary
Anniversary:24th anniversary of the death of F. Patrick McElduff (77) d. 2000 at Dublin, Ireland. Read Obituary
Anniversary:20th anniversary of the death of F. Evaristo Mapuranga (53) d. 2004 at Harare, Zimbabwe. Read Obituary
Anniversary:13th anniversary of the death of P. Francis O'Neill (83) d. 2011 at Dublin, Ireland. Read Obituary
Birthday:32nd birthday of S. Victor C CHIPALABWE (born this day in 1992).
Jubilee:Diamond Jubilee of P. Ludwig REAL who celebrates 60 years in the Society today.

On this day in our Jesuit history...

Feast of Blessed Juliana of Cornelion. She was placed in the Jesuit martyrology at the request of Fr. General Ledochowski. She lived 1193-1258 and helped spread devotion to Corpus Christi, petitioning for a feast to honor it.
1570Jesuits became the confessors in St. Peter’s Basilica in the transfer to the Society of the "College of Penitentiaries."
1581St. Edmund Campion published his Decem Rationes.
1669At Paris, St. Claude de la Colombiere was ordained a priest.
1672In the Marianne Isle, the Ven. Fr. Diego de San Vitores suffered martyrdom after converting 30,000 persons to the faith. When only 13 years old he heard our Lady tell him three distinct times to enter the Society.
1850First edition of La Civilta Cattolica appears. The first journal of the restored Society.
1987Brother Vincent Canas Costa (age 48). After 11 years on the mission in Brazil, he is killed by a blunt wound in the stomach.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2024

Dominical Letter  g f
Golden Number  11
Epact  xix
Solar Cycle 17
Letter of the Martyrology u
Roman Year of Indiction 2
Julian Period Year 6737
Years since the confirmation of the Society 484
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  468
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 3
Sunday Readings  Cycle  B
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 31 March
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    5 May