Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the terminally ill (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that the sick who are in the final stages of life, and their families, receive the necessary medical and human care and accompaniment."
15 Thursday
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Thursday after Ash Wednesday.
Mass of the day. Preface of Lent I - IV
[220] Deut 30:15-20;Ps 1:1-2, 3, 4+6; Luke 9:22-25.
Hours of the day.
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St Claude la Colombière, priest [SJ] Outside SJ churches seasonal weekday. Texts in the Jesuit Supplement. (Download Mass texts and Divine Office texts here) Readings from the Common of Saints: Eph 3:8-9, 14-19, Ps 103Â (102):1bc-2, 3-4, 8-9, 17-18a, Matt 11:25-30
Commemoration
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Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture Bl. Onesimus the Slave (cf. Phlm. 10-12) [from the Roman Martyrology].
On this day in our Jesuit history...
St. Claude La Colombiere, priest dies 1682, optional memorial. He was the Spiritual director to St. Margaret Mary, and for two years chaplain in England to the Duchess of York. He was then arrested, committed to prison in connection with the Oates' Plot and banished from the country.
Saint Claude La Colombière, Priest (Memorial)
Claude La Colombière (1641-1682) was born in France, joined the Society of Jesus in 1659, and was ordained a priest ten years later. In 1675, he was appointed superior of a Jesuit residence in Paray-le-Monial. There he also became the spiritual director of Margaret Mary Alacoque, a Visitation nun, who was entrusted by Christ to promote devotion to his Sacred Heart, in collaboration with Colombière. On learning about this mission, Colombière, after prayerful consideration, authenticated the supernatural experiences of Margaret Mary, and became both her supporter and a zealous apostle of the devotion. His preaching and writing helped propagate widespread devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
1534
Pierre Favre is ordained a sub-deacon in Paris.
1541
St. Ignatius and companions move to a house near the church of Madonna della Strada, the site that was to be the Curia of the Society for more than two hundred years.
1600
Jose Acosta, S.J. dies. He was a missionary, a Renaissance man, called "the Pliny of the New World." He wrote on the history, culture, and fauna and flora of Peru. At the end of his life, he was involved in politics and became opposed to Fr. General Acquaviva.
1732
Pere Chamillard, S.J. who had been reported by the Jansenists as having died a Jansenist and working miracles, suddenly appears alive and well.
1775
Cardinal Braschi was elected Pope Pius VI. A former pupil of the Society of Jesus, he desired the release of Father General Ricci and his assistants from prison in Castel San Angelo, but Charles III ofSpaininsisted on their detention. Fr. Ricci died in captivity
1961
Fr. George Ganss revealed his first plan for the Institute of Jesuit Sources.
1985
Francis Filas, S.J. dies, Chicago. Theologian, sindologist. He wrote on St. Joseph and the Shroud of Turin.
