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April 2070

6 Sunday
  whiteSecond Sunday of Easter (Sunday of Divine Mercy) [Octave Day of Easter].
(Formerly known as Dominica in Albis (Sunday in White), Quasimodo Sunday or Low Sunday.)
Mass of the Sunday, Gloria, Creed, Preface of Easter I ("on this Easter day"); Easter Communicantes and Hanc igitur; double alleluia at dismissal.
Yr C [45] Acts 5:12-16; Ps 118:2-4, 13-15, 22-24; Rev 1:9-11, 12-13, 17-19; John 20:19-31.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum.
Evening Prayer II of the Sunday. The Easter Octave ends.
Week 2 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:173rd anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Wright (46) d. 1897 at Blackpool, England. Read Obituary
Anniversary:70th anniversary of the death of F. Patrick McElduff (77) d. 2000 at Dublin, Ireland. Read Obituary
Anniversary:66th anniversary of the death of F. Evaristo Mapuranga (53) d. 2004 at Harare, Zimbabwe. Read Obituary
Anniversary:59th anniversary of the death of P. Francis O'Neill (83) d. 2011 at Dublin, Ireland. Read Obituary
Birthday:78th birthday of S. Victor C CHIPALABWE (born this day in 1992).

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 2070

Dominical Letter  e
Golden Number  19
Epact  xvii
Solar Cycle 7
Letter of the Martyrology s
Roman Year of Indiction 3
Julian Period Year 6783
Years since the confirmation of the Society 530
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  514
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 49
Sunday Readings  Cycle  C
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 30 March
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    4 May