Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For families in crisis (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that broken families might discover the cure for their wounds through forgiveness, rediscovering each other’s gifts, even in their differences."
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Second Sunday of Lent
Mass of the Sunday; Creed, Preface of Second Sunday of Lent. Penitential Rite for candidates to be admitted to Full Communion may be celebrated.
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[27] Gen 15:5-12, 17-18; Ps 27:1, 7-8a, 8b-9, 13-14; Phil 3:17-4:1 or 3:20-4:1; Luke 9:28b-36.
Hours of the Sunday.
Week 2 of the Psalter.
Birthday:
31st birthday of S. Wales BANDA (born this day in 1994).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1649
In Canada, among the Iroquois, Jean de Brebeuf died a glorious martyr after a series of horrible tortures, the very recital of which makes one shudder.
1880
The French Parliament pass Jules Ferry's Bill for the closing of all the Society's houses and colleges in France.
1988
Fr. General Kolvenbach meets Commander in Chief Fidel Castro in Havana, Cuba.
1990
Joseph Sebes, S.J. dies Chinese scholar and professor at Georgetown University.
2005
Antonio deAldama, S.J. dies age 97. Secretary of the Society from 1945-50 and expert on the Constitutions.
2007
Daniel Degnan, S.J. dies lawyer, had been president of St. Peter’s College.
