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| violet | Ash Wednesday | |
| | 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. |
| | Lunar New Year (Year of the Rooster). |
| Anniversary: | 47th anniversary of the death of P. Joseph McSweeney (HIB) (73) d. 1982 at Dublin, Ireland.  |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 1656 | At Cologne, the death of Fr. Herman Baving, a German who, when provincial of the Lower Rhine, continually exhorted the masters in the colleges to promote among their scholars devotion to the guardian angels. |
| 1831 | The French novitiate at Montrouge near Paris was sacked by revolutionaries convinced that the novices there were practicing "small arms drills" in preparation for the Society’s conquering France. |
| 1831 | The French novitiate at Montrouge near Paris was sacked by revolutionaries convinced that the novices there were practicing "small arms drills" in preparation for the Society’s conquering France. |
| 1891 | General William Tecumseh Sherman (March to the Sea) dies. One of his sons was a Jesuit priest. |
| 1982 | Paul Palmer, S.J. dies theologian on sacraments, professor at Woodstock. |
| 1984 | Johannes Hofinger, S.J. dies in New Orleans. He founded the East Asian Pastoral Institute, and pioneered in liturgical, pastoral, and catechetical renewal initiated by Vatican II. |
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