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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. | |
| [RM] | Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Joseph, spouse of Mary, the Mother of Jesus (cf. Mt. 1:20-21) [from the Roman Martyrology]. |
| Anniversary: | 78th anniversary of the death of F. Peter Osterkiewicz (92) d. 1984 at Lusaka, Zambia.  |
| Anniversary: | 67th anniversary of the death of F. Stanislaus Zak (92) d. 1995 at Stara Wies, Poland. |
| Birthday: | 75th birthday of P. Mayamiko A. KACHIPAPA (born this day in 1987). |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| | SAINT JOSEPH, SPOUSE OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY (Patron Saint of the Society of Jesus) (Solemnity)
The feast-day of Saint Joseph, 19 March, was established by Pope Sixtus IV in 1481. The Society of Jesus has had a marked devotion to Saint Joseph since its earliest years. In 1955, when Pope Pius XII established the feast of “Saint Joseph the Worker”, the Church and the Society of Jesus omitted the feast of the patronage from their liturgical calendars. In 2012, the Society of Jesus reinstituted the feast of the patronage of Saint Joseph.
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| 1523 | At Barcelona, St. Ignatius embarks for Jerusalem. |
| 1535 | At Paris Ignatius received the Master of Arts degree with the right to be called "Master Ignatius". |
| 1544 | The Bull, "Injunctum Nobis" confirms the Society of Jesus, and allows more than 60 to be professed fathers. |
| 1616 | Peter Claver is ordained priest in the Cathedral of Cartagena. 1634. Antonio de Andrade dies in Goa. He had been the first European to enter Tibet. |
| 1715 | Pope Clement XI condemned the "Chinese Rites"; this action proved disastrous to the Chinese mission. |
| 1971 | The African Assistancy of the Society of Jesus is created. There were 1600 Jesuits in Africa. |
| 1991 | Joseph Gallen, S.J. dies age 88. canon lawyer, Professor at Woodstock College from 1940-66, writer for Review for Religious. |
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