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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."

9 Friday
  whiteFriday in the Octave of Easter
 Mass of the Octave. Gloria, sequence optional, Preface of Easter I ("on this day"); double alleluia at dismissal.
 [265] Acts 4:1-12; Ps 118:1-2+4, 22-24, 25-27a; John 21:1-14.
Hours of the day; Te Deum, double alleluia at dismissal.
Anniversary:38th anniversary of the death of P. Alfons Pollet (51) d. 1983 at London, England. Read Obituary
Anniversary:31st anniversary of the death of P. John Carroll (NEN) (67) d. 1990 at Likuni, Malawi. Read Obituary
Birthday:49th birthday of P. Rampeoane HLOBO (born this day in 1972).
Birthday:87th birthday of P. Emmanuel KUJUR (born this day in 1934).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1553Ignatius sends Jerome Nadal as Commissary into Spain to publish the Constitutions.
1615William Weston, S.J. dies at Valladolid.
1879Angelo M. Paresci, S.J. dies at Woodstock. He was the founder and first Rector of Woodstock College.
1905The amputation of the right arm of Fr. General Luis Martin.
1913Pope St. Pius X spoke his praises of the Apostleship of Prayer. It counted 25 million members. The periodical The Messenger of the Sacred Heart appears in 42 editions in more than 20 languages.
1934Aloysius Pieris, S.J. born. Sri Lanka theologian.
1998John Coventry, S.J. dies Provincial, theologian, writer, of Great Britain.

 


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