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.
Yr B
[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:
144th anniversary of the death of P. Charles Lonergan (45) d. 1907 at Dunbrody, RSA.
Anniversary:
76th anniversary of the death of F. Thomas Clayton (78) d. 1975 at Stonyhurst, Lancs, England.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1543
Pope Paul III signs a papal bill establishing a confraternity, "Compagnia della grazia," to run the House of St. Martha for wayward women.
1581
The election of Father Claude Acquaviva as 5th General in the Fourth General Congregation. He was only 37 years of age, and a Jesuit for only l4 years. He was general under 8 popes. He had been a fellow novice with St. Stanislaus.
1803
At. St. Inigo's, Maryland, Fr. James Walton died. He entered the Society in 1757, was sent to Maryland in 1766 and labored for 36 years. During the Suppression, fully confident that the Society would one day be restored, he faithfully guarded the property of the Society which had been invested chiefly in his name.
1906
George Tyrell, modernist, theologian, leaves the Society of Jesus.
1984
Fr. General honors Br. Joseph Auger at dinner table, on his 75th birthday and almost 50 years of service at the Curia under four Generals.
1984
The death of Fr. Nikolaus Ory, scholar. He was the unifier and leader of the exiled, dispersed Hungarian priests, Unio Cleri Hungarici.
2009
Letter of Fr. Nicolas, "The Universal Vocation of the Jesuit."
2019
Letter on the Universal Apostolic Preferences of the Society of Jesus - 2019-2029. From Fr. Sosa
