Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: That the dignity of human life might be respected. (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that in a culture focused on productivity and instant results, we might be capable of discovering and appreciating the unique dignity of each person, both our own and that of others."
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Monday in the Fifth Week of Lent
Mass of the day. Preface of the Passion I
[251] Dan 13:1-9, 15-17, 19-30, 33-62 or 13:41c-62;Ps 23:1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6; John 8:1-11 (Year A or B) or Jn 8:12-20 (Year C).
Hours of the day.
Anniversary:
112th anniversary of the death of F. Paulo Schupp (45) d. 1915 at Bombay, India.
Anniversary:
92nd anniversary of the death of F. Thomas Arnold (74) d. 1935 at Chishawasha, S. Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
59th anniversary of the death of P. Alfredo João Peixoto (37) d. 1968 at Vila Coutinho, Province of Mozambique.
Anniversary:
24th anniversary of the death of P. Andrew Pirog (95) d. 2003 at Lusaka, Zambia.
At 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.
1561
At 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.
1575
Luis Gonzalez Camara dies Lisbon. From 1553-55 he took dictation of the Autobiography of St. Ignatius.
1632
At Seville, the death of Father Diego Ruiz, the great theologian, who studied on his knees.
1711
Eusebio 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.
1797
President George Washington holds a public reception at Georgetown University.
1893
Bernard Leeming S.J is born. ecumenist, expert on Anglican orders. He attended Xavier H.S. in New York.
1933
The 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.
1995
Joseph Fitzpatrick dies. A sociologist, an expert on Hispanics in the USA, he was a professor at Fordham University.
1995
Richard Smith dies. age 77. He was a professor of theology and he edited the Review for Religious from 1959-75.
