Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For health care workers (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "We pray for health care workers who serve the sick and the elderly, especially in the poorest countries; may they be adequately supported by governments and local communities."
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Friday in the Fourth Week of Lent
Mass of the day. Preface of Lent I - IV
[248] Wis 2:1a, 12-22;Ps 34:17-18, 19-20, 21+23; John 7:1-2, 10, 25-30
Hours of the day.
Anniversary:
21st anniversary of the death of P. Hubert Delaney (HIB) (71) d. 2001 at Dublin, Ireland.
Birthday:
58th birthday of P. David MASIKINI (born this day in 1964).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1767
All the Society's Colleges and houses in Spain were occupied by troops, and the Jesuits dragged to Cartagena to be shipped as exiles to the Papal States.
1863
Governor John A. Andrews approves the charter for Boston College.
1941
Hippolyte Delehaye, S.J. dies. Brussels: hagiographer, President of the Bollandists from 1912 to 1941.
1963
Gerald Ellard, S.J. dies Liturgist, and one of the founders of the National Liturgical Conference.
1984
Georgetown University wins the NCAA Basketball Championship, John Thompson is the coach.
