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Saturday in the First Week of Lent
Mass of the day. Preface of Lent I - IV
[229] Deut 26:16-19;Ps 119:1-2, 4-5, 7-8; Matt 5:43-48.
Hours of the day.
30th World Day of Persons with Disabilities (est. 1992)
Anniversary:
31st anniversary of the death of P. John Brogan (72) d. 1991 at Johannesburg, RSA.
Birthday:
43rd birthday of P. Odericky Roxy MWEEMBA (born this day in 1979).
Birthday:
28th birthday of S. Meu JORGE (born this day in 1994).
Jubilee:
Silver Jubilee of P. Stephen BUCKLAND who celebrates 25 years since professing Final Vows today.
SJ NOTE:
Monthly Mass for the needs of the Church and the Society should be offered on March 12, the 400th anniversary of the canonization of Ss Ignatius and Francis Xavier.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1604
At St. Omer’s died Br. Ralph Emerson, who along with Edmund Campion and Robert Parsons were the first Jesuits to enter England.
1622
At Rome, the canonization of Ignatius and Francis Xavier by Pope Gregory XV.
1622
At Rome the solemn canonization of SS. Ignatius and Francis Xavier by Pope Gregory XV. (with St. Teresa of Avila and Philip Neri and Isidore, the husbandman or farmer)
1633
The death of Cornelius a Lapide, S.J. Scripture scholar. He wrote commentaries on all books of the Bible except Job and the Psalms.
1783
On this day Pope Pius VI expressed his approval of the Society in White Russia, saying in an audience... "Approbo Societatem Jesu in Alba Russia degentem. Approbo, approbo!"
1964
Pope Paul VI, an alumnus, visits the Gregorian University.
1977
Rutilio Grande, S.J., a pastor in El Salvador and champion of the campesinos is murdered on his way to celebrate Mass.
1978
Robert I. Gannon, S.J. dies educator, after dinner speaker. He was President of Fordham University.
