Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For a non-violent culture (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray for a more widespread culture of non-violence that will progress when countries and citizens alike resort less and less to the use of arms."
Last Quarter
2 Sunday
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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.
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:
68th anniversary of the death of F. António TimóTeo (86) d. 1955 at Caldinhas, Portugal.
Anniversary:
15th anniversary of the death of F. Brutus Clay (90) d. 2008 at Chicago, USA.
Anniversary:
7th anniversary of the death of F. Joe Mandaza (84) d. 2016 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
Birthday:
30th birthday of S. Christopher Takudzwa TAMBURAYI (born this day in 1993).
Jubilee:
Crystal Jubilee of P. Lawrence DAKA who celebrates 15 years since professing Final Vows today.
Jubilee:
Crystal Jubilee of P. Joseph ARIMOSO who celebrates 15 years since professing Final Vows today.
18th Anniversary of the death of Pope John Paul II (2005).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1568
At Rome, the entrance of Blessed Rodolf Acquaviva, aged 17, into the novitiate of San Andrea, where St. Stanislaus was then a novice.
1640
The death of Matthew Casimir Sarbiewski, S.J. called the "Polish Horace" because of his poetry.
1767
In Spain, Charles III ordered the arrest of all the Jesuit Fathers and the sequestration of all their houses and goods, being enraged against the Society by a forged letter of the General (the work of De Choiseul), which spoke of him as illegitimate.
1802
Joseph Schneller dies in Vienna, a famous Jesuit preacher.
1872
Samuel Morse dies. He invented the telegraph, and also wrote anti-Catholic and anti-Jesuit literature.
1994
Anthony Lawn, S.J. dies. Basically a prison chaplain, in 1985 he was invited to work for and be an actor in the film, The Mission.
