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April 2021

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: Fundamental rights (Watch video) (Read Reflection)
"We pray for those who risk their lives while fighting for fundamental rights under dictatorships, authoritarian regimes and even in democracies in crisis."

7 Wednesday

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Wednesday in the Octave of Easter

Mass of the Octave. Gloria, sequence optional, Preface of Easter I ("on this day"); double alleluia at dismissal.

[263] Acts 3:1-10; Ps 105:1-2, 3-4, 6-7, 8-9; Luke 24:13-35.

Hours of the day; Te Deum, double alleluia at dismissal.

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1506

St. Francis Xavier is born at the family castle in Navarre. Six days later Peter Faber is born.

1994

Three Jesuit priests killed, with 14 others at Centre Christus in Rwanda: Chrysologus Mahame (the first Rwandan Jesuit, age 67), Patrick Gahizi (age 48) , and Innocent Rutagambwa (age 46). Beginnings of genocide in Rwanda, one half million killed in the next seven months.

2014

In Homs, Syria, Frans Van der Lugt is assassinated.

VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2021

Dominical Letter	c
Golden Number	8
Epact	xvi
Solar Cycle	14
Letter of the Martyrology	r
Roman Year of Indiction	14
Julian Period	Year 6734
Years since the confirmation of the Society	481
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius	465
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province	0
Sunday Readings	Cycle B
Weekday Readings	Cycle I
Gregorian Easter	4 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter	2 May