Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For new martyrs (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that those who risk their lives for the Gospel in various parts of the world might imbue the Church with their courage and missionary drive."
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Fifth Sunday of Lent.
Mass of the Sunday, or of the Third Scrutiny; Creed, Preface of Fifth Sunday (with Year "A" readings) or Lent I - II.
Yr B
[35] Jer 31:31-34; Ps 51:3-4, 12-13, 14-15; Heb 5:7-9; John 12:20-33.
Yr B
Alt. (from Year A) [34] Ezek 37:12-14; Ps 130:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8; Rom 8:8-11; John 11:1-45 or 11:3-7, 17, 20-27, 33b-45.
In Year B, during the week, Year A's gospel (Jn 11:1-45) may be used [1st R: 2 Kgs 4:18b-21, 32-27; Ps 17] Lect. [250].
Hours of the Sunday. Week 1 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:
72nd anniversary of the death of P. Nicholas Ryan (65) d. 1952 at Petworth, W. Sussex, England.
Anniversary:
67th anniversary of the death of P. Waldermarus Seidel (74) d. 1957 at Lusaka, N. Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
48th anniversary of the death of F. Andrew Mclnally (80) d. 1976 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
46th anniversary of the death of P. John Coyne (89) d. 1978 at Dublin, Ireland.
Birthday:
63rd birthday of P. Paul MAYERESA (born this day in 1961).
Birthday:
62nd birthday of P. Peter KNOX (born this day in 1962).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1545
At Meliapore, Francis Xavier came on pilgrimage to the tomb of St. Thomas the Apostle.
1581
Fr. Alessandro Valignani founds a Jesuit college in Japan.
1649
Gabriel Lalemant, S.J. dies, one of the martyrs of North America. He dies one day after Jean de Brebeuf.
1652
Fr. Goswin Nickel is elected General in succession to Fr. Gottifredi, who died six weeks after his election.
1667
At Paris, the death of Felipe Labbe who wrote a 17 volume collection of the decrees of Church Councils.
1780
The ambassadors of France, Spain, and Portugal try in vain to force Pope Pius IV to confirm the brief of Suppression and to excommunicate the Jesuits in Russia.
1865
As Japan opens up, Fr. Pelitjean discovers 50,000 Catholics who had kept the faith for 200 years with no priest, but only baptism.
