Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the use of the new technologies (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that the use of the new technologies will not replace human relationships, will respect the dignity of the person, and will help us face the crises of our times."
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Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion.
Mass of Palm Sunday. Commemoration of Lord's Entrance into Jerusalem, Creed, Preface of Palm Sunday.
[38] Isa 50:4-7; Ps 22:8-9, 17-18, 19-20, 23-24; Phil 2:6-11; Luke 22:14-23:56 or 23:1-49;
At the procession: [37] Luke 19:28-40.
Hours of Palm Sunday.
The Commemoration of the Lord's Entrance may take one of three forms, as described in the Missal: Blessing and Procession, Solemn Entrance, or Simple Entrance. The processional cross should be suitably decorated. The blessing of palms may not be celebrated without the following procession and Mass. The blessing and solemn entrance, but not the procession, may be celebrated at a second Mass if many of the faithful are present.
The Passion may be read by three deacons, or lay readers with the priest taking the part of Christ, without candles, incense, greeting, signs of the cross or acclamation. At the mention of the Lord's death, all pause and kneel. Where pastoral reasons require it, one or both of the readings before the Passion may be omitted.
At the end of the Passion, The Gospel of the Lord, is said, but the book is not kissed.
Blessed palms remaining are kept, to be burnt for next year's ashes.
Anniversary:
54th anniversary of the death of P. Luciano Ribeiro (61) d. 1971 at Tete, Province of Mozambique.
Anniversary:
35th anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Dinley (76) d. 1990 at Boscombe, England.
Anniversary:
27th anniversary of the death of P. Edward Kilbride (HIB) (86) d. 1998 at Limerick, Ireland.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1506
Peter Faber is born in Savoy, the first companion of Ignatius. He was born six days after Xavier was born.
1561
Pius IV, by a special Brief, allowed the Society to erect houses within a distance of l40 yards (cannae) from the houses of other Religious Orders.
1853
Loyola College, Baltimore, is chartered.
1979
James W. Naughton, S.J. dies Secretary of the Society, 1950-67.
1981
Fr. Godofredo Alingal, S.J. is shot and killed in his rectory in Kibawe, Philippines. He defended the rights of poor farmers. Age 59.
2004
Bishop Martin Neylon, S.J. dies in New York. He had been director of Novices and then bishop in the Caroline-Marshall Islands.
