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March 2026

15 Sunday
  rose   violetFourth Sunday of Lent
Laetare Sunday
Mass of the Sunday, or of the Second Scrutiny; Creed, Preface of Fourth Sunday (with Year "A" readings) or Lent I - II.
Yr A [31] 1 Sam 16:1b, 6-7, 10-13a; Ps 23:1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6; Eph 5:8-14; John 9:1-41 or 9:1, 6-9, 13-17, 34-38.
Hours of the Sunday.
Week 4 of the Psalter.
Organ may be played solo; flowers may decorate the altar today. (PS 25, 2002 GIRM 305, 313.)
Anniversary:111th anniversary of the death of F. Paulo Schupp (45) d. 1915 at Bombay, India. Read Obituary
Anniversary:91st anniversary of the death of F. Thomas Arnold (74) d. 1935 at Chishawasha, S. Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:58th anniversary of the death of P. Alfredo João Peixoto (37) d. 1968 at Vila Coutinho, Province of Mozambique. Read Obituary
Anniversary:23rd anniversary of the death of P. Andrew Pirog (95) d. 2003 at Lusaka, Zambia. Read Obituary
Birthday:53rd birthday of P. José JÚLIO (born this day in 1973).
Birthday:68th birthday of F. Jonathan CHAZURA (born this day in 1958).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1522At Montserrat on the Vigil of the Annunciation, Ignatius spent the night in prayerful vigil. He had arrived dressed in expensive clothes in the fashion and style of soldiers, but gave those garments to a poor man and donned a simple pilgrim's robe.
1561At Monomotapa, the martyrdom of Fr. Goncalo da Silveira strangled by Mahometans in Zimbabwe. The first martyr of sub-Saharan Africa, he was opposed by Arab merchants.
1575Luis Gonzalez Camara dies Lisbon. From 1553-55 he took dictation of the Autobiography of St. Ignatius.
1632At Seville, the death of Father Diego Ruiz, the great theologian, who studied on his knees.
1711Eusebio Kino, S.J dies in California, missionary, pioneer, cartographer, mathematician. He worked in Mexico and Arizona, and died while celebrating Mass. He represents the state of Arizona in the Statuary Hall at the Capitol Building in Washington.
1797President George Washington holds a public reception at Georgetown University.
1893Bernard Leeming S.J is born. ecumenist, expert on Anglican orders. He attended Xavier H.S. in New York.
1933The death of Frederick Odenbach, S.J. called the father of American seismology. He set up the first seismograph in the USA and was the inventor of the electric seismograph.
1995Joseph Fitzpatrick dies. A sociologist, an expert on Hispanics in the USA, he was a professor at Fordham University.
1995Richard Smith dies. age 77. He was a professor of theology and he edited the Review for Religious from 1959-75.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2026

Dominical Letter  d
Golden Number  13
Epact  xi
Solar Cycle 19
Letter of the Martyrology l
Roman Year of Indiction 4
Julian Period Year 6739
Years since the confirmation of the Society 486
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  470
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 5
Sunday Readings  Cycle  A
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 5 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    12 April