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."
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First Sunday of Lent
Mass of the Sunday; Creed, Preface of First Sunday of Lent. The beginning of the penitential season may be marked in some way, e.g. by Litany of Saints in Entrance Procession. (PS, 23) Rite of Election (Enrollment of Names) for the catechumens.
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[23] Gen 9:8-15; Ps 25:4-5, 6-7, 8-9; 1 Pet 3:18-22; Mark 1:12-15.
Hours of the Sunday.
Week 1 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:
55th anniversary of the death of P. Edward Smithies (68) d. 1969 at Spinkhill, Sheffield, England.
Anniversary:
7th anniversary of the death of P. Charles Schmitz (ORE) (78) d. 2017 at Los Gatos, CA, USA.
Birthday:
31st birthday of S. JĂșnior Orcastro de Ganda JONE (born this day in 1993).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1528
Ignatius arrived in Paris to begin his studies anew after his frustration at AlcalĂĄ and Salamanca.
1551
The opening in the Piazza Ara Coeli of the ïŹrst school of the Society of Jesus in Rome, which soon developed into the Roman College, later to be called the Gregorian University.
1571
A Group of Spanish Jesuits is murdered by Indians in Chesapeake Bay area after six months of activity. This leads to the withdrawal of Jesuits from there as well as Florida.
1967
Robert Leiber, S.J. dies. He was a Professor of History at the Gregorian University, who continued updating Pastor's History of the Papacy.
1978
The death in Rome of Fr. Patrick Treanor, age 58, director of the Vatican Observatory since 1970.
