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red | Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion. |
| | Mass of Palm Sunday. Commemoration of Lord's Entrance into Jerusalem, Creed, Preface of Palm Sunday. |
| | [38] Isa 50:4-7; Ps 22:8-9, 17-18, 19-20, 23-24; Phil 2:6-11; Matt 26:14-27:66 or 27:11-54. |
| | At the procession: [37] Matt 21:1-11. |
| | Hours of Palm Sunday. |
| | The Commemoration of the Lord's Entrance may take one of three forms, as described in the Missal: Blessing and Procession, Solemn Entrance, or Simple Entrance. The processional cross should be suitably decorated. The blessing of palms may not be celebrated without the following procession and Mass. The blessing and solemn entrance, but not the procession, may be celebrated at a second Mass if many of the faithful are present. |
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The Passion may be read by three deacons, or lay readers with the priest taking the part of Christ, without candles, incense, greeting, signs of the cross or acclamation. At the mention of the Lord's death, all pause and kneel. Where pastoral reasons require it, one or both of the readings before the Passion may be omitted.
At the end of the Passion, The Gospel of the Lord, is said, but the book is not kissed.
Blessed palms remaining are kept, to be burnt for next year's ashes. | |
| Anniversary: | 155th anniversary of the death of P. William Vierin (43) d. 1883 at Mopeia, Mozambique.  |
| Anniversary: | 109th anniversary of the death of F. Francis Simonis (87) d. 1929 at Dunbrody, RSA. |
| Anniversary: | 53rd anniversary of the death of P. Josip Weissgerber (CRO) (63) d. 1985 at Zagreb, Croatia. |
| Anniversary: | 43rd anniversary of the death of P. John Monaghan (74) d. 1995 at Portland, USA. |
| Anniversary: | 30th anniversary of the death of P. Vital Dias Pereira (87) d. 2008 at Lisbon, Portugal. |
| Birthday: | 104th birthday of P. J. Paul BRASSIL (born this day in 1934). |
| Birthday: | 73rd birthday of P. Sebastian M. MALAMBO (born this day in 1965). |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 1541 | Ignatius is elected General again, after refusing or declining the first election results. |
| 1541 | On his 35th birthday, St. Francis Xavier embarked from the quay of the Tagus River known as the Place of Tears to go to India with two other Jesuits. The voyage took them 13 months. |
| 1580 | Father Robert Parson, Edmund Campion and Brother Ralph Emerson and others set out from Rome for the English mission. They entered England by different routes and in different disguises. |
| 1906 | Fr. General Luis Martin dies. |
| 1949 | St. Benedict Center, Cambridge, MA, under Fr. Leonard Feeney, is placed under interdict. |
| 1959 | Francis P. Donnelly, S.J. dies New York Province. Teacher, writer, author of many textbooks on English. |
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