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| | Mass of Ash Wednesday; after the sign of the cross and greeting, the penitential act is omitted.
Preface of Lent III or IV. |
| | [219] Joel 2: 12-18; Ps 51:3-4, 5-6, 12-13, 14+17; 2 Cor 5:20-6:2; Matt 6:1-6, 16-18 |
| | (Switch to Vol. II of the Lit. of the Hours.)
Hours of Ash Wednesday; Psalter Week 4 today and until Saturday.
Today at Morning Prayer, the psalms of Friday, Week 3 may be used. |
| | The celebrant blesses and distributes ashes after the homily.
Other persons may be associated with the bishop or priest in the imposition of ashes, e.g., deacons, special ministers of communion and other lay persons, when there is true pastoral need. |
| Special ministers of communion and deacons may bring blessed ashes to the sick and those confined to their homes. If a minister is not available, a member of the family or another person may bring the blessed ashes to a shut-in, using one of the formulas in the Roman Missal to impose ashes. |
| For pastoral reasons the blessing and distribution of ashes may take place outside Mass. In this case, the entire liturgy of the word should be celebrated: entrance song, opening prayer, readings and chants, homily, blessing and distribution of ashes, and general intercessions. See the Book of Blessings, nos. 1656ff. |
| Anniversary: | 95th anniversary of the death of P. Victor Riederer (81) d. 2002 at West Wickham, Kent, England.  |
| Anniversary: | 94th anniversary of the death of P. Anthony Davis (83) d. 2003 at Harare, Zimbabwe. |
| Birthday: | 139th birthday of P. Andrzej LEÅšNIARA (born this day in 1958). |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 1557 | Father Andrew Oviedo, recently consecrated bishop and Patriarch of Ethiopia set sail from Goa for his new see. His mission to "Prester John" was a special interest of St. Ignatius. |
| 1562 | A decree of the Parliament of Paris gives the Society legal existence in France, albeit with severe limitations. |
| 1585 | Alfonsus Salmeron, S.J. dies. He was the youngest of the first companions of Ignatius, a preacher, theologian, and envoy to Ireland. |
| 1787 | At Milan died Father Roger Boscovich, an illustrious mathematician, scientist, and astronomer. At Paris he was appointed "Directeur de la Marine". He was among the most famous scientists in Jesuit history. His theory of the composition of matter foreshadowed in part modern atomic theory, hinting at a field theory approach to physics. He is pictured on a banknote in Croatia in 1993. |
| 1880 | John La Farge, S.J. is born at Newport, Rhode Island. |
| 1946 | The New Orleans Province is informed that it is assigned a mission in Sri Lanka. The decree was dated March 12. |
| 1949 | The two top floors of the theologians house at Milltown Park go up in flames, and one Jesuit theologian is killed. |
| 1956 | Br. Claude Ramaz, S.J. dies. He served as an administrator and printer, at the Messenger of the Sacred Heart from 1894 to 1946. He was a pioneer in color printing for Catholic magazines, and a promoter of devotion to the Sacred Heart. |
| 1999 | The death of Robert O’Connell, of Fordham, philosopher and scholar, writer on St. Augustine. (Age 74) |
| 2019 | Death of Daniel Flaherty, collaboration on writings of Walter Ciszek and Fr. Arrupe- worked at American magazine, was provincial. |
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