Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: That those who care for others might receive care. (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that those who care for the holistic health of others might receive the support they need, and that with patience, wisdom, and fortitude, they might open avenues of inner healing and hope."
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Friday after Ash Wednesday.
Mass of the day. Preface of Lent I - IV
[221] Isa 58:1-9a;Ps 51:3-4, 5-6ab, 18-19; Matt 9:14-15.
Hours of the day.
Anniversary:
123rd anniversary of the death of P. Reginald Colley (55) d. 1904 at Stonyhurst, Lancs, England.
Anniversary:
10th anniversary of the death of P. Anthony Bex (ZIM) (95) d. 2017 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
Birthday:
69th birthday of P. Tadeusz ÅšWIDERSKI (born this day in 1958).
Birthday:
31st birthday of S. Francisco João SANTOS (born this day in 1996).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1787
At Milan the death of Rudiger Boscovich, among the most famous scientists in Jesuit history. His theory of the composition of matter foreshadowed in part modern atomic theory.
1866
Pope Pius IX wrote a papal brief in favor of La Civilta Cattolica.
1958
Joseph Bonsirven, S.J. dies Scripture scholar.
1964
The Jesuits, 18 Canadian Jesuits, are expelled from Haiti.
1967
Francis X. Roser, S.J. dies A scientist, he worked on the measurement of radioactivity in Brazil.
1977
Calvert Alexander dies. Editor of Jesuit Missions.
2000
Richard McCormick, S.J. dies, age 77. Taught at seminaries, wrote ‘Notes on Moral Theology’ for Theological Studies, and many books on moral theology and medical ethics.
