Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: That the dignity of human life might be respected. (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that in a culture focused on productivity and instant results, we might be capable of discovering and appreciating the unique dignity of each person, both our own and that of others."
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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.
35th World Day of Persons with Disabilities (est. 1992)
Anniversary:
36th anniversary of the death of P. John Brogan (72) d. 1991 at Johannesburg, RSA.
Anniversary:
12th anniversary of the death of F. Martin Murphy (81) d. 2015 at Dublin, Ireland.
Birthday:
33rd birthday of S. Meu JORGE (born this day in 1994).
Birthday:
48th birthday of P. Odericky Roxy MWEEMBA (born this day in 1979).
Jubilee:
Pearl Jubilee of P. Stephen BUCKLAND who celebrates 30 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 405th 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.
