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April 2044

7 Thursday
  violetThursday in the Fifth Week of Lent
Mass of the day. Preface of the Passion I
 [254] Gen 17:3-9; Ps 105:4-5, 6-7, 8-9; John 8:51-59.
Hours of the day.
  whiteSt John Baptist de la Salle, priest
Common of Pastors, or Common of Holy Men and Women: For Teachers
Readings from the Common of Saints: [549] 2 Tim 1:13-14; 2:1-3 (#722.11); Ps 1:1-2, 3, 4+6 (#739.1); Matt 18:1-5 (#742.7).
Commemoration

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1506St. Francis Xavier is born at the family castle in Navarre. Six days later Peter Faber is born.
1994Three 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.
2014In Homs, Syria, Frans Van der Lugt is assassinated.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2044

Dominical Letter  c b
Golden Number  12
Epact  *
Solar Cycle 9
Letter of the Martyrology P
Roman Year of Indiction 7
Julian Period Year 6757
Years since the confirmation of the Society 504
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  488
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 23
Sunday Readings  Cycle  A
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 17 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    24 April