Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the use of the new technologies (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that the use of the new technologies will not replace human relationships, will respect the dignity of the person, and will help us face the crises of our times."
2 Wednesday
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Wednesday in the Fourth Week of Lent
Mass of the day. Preface of Lent I - IV
[246] Isa 49:8-15;Ps 145:8-9, 13cd-14, 17-18; John 5:17-30.
Hours of the day.
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St Francis of Paola, hermit Common of Holy Men and Women: For Religious Readings from the Common of Saints: [546] Phil 3:8-14 (#740.9); Ps 16:1-2a+5, 7-8, 11 (#739.3); Luke 12:32-34 (#742.21).
Commemoration
20th Anniversary of the death of Pope John Paul II (2005).
Anniversary:
70th anniversary of the death of F. António TimóTeo (86) d. 1955 at Caldinhas, Portugal.
Anniversary:
17th anniversary of the death of F. Brutus Clay (90) d. 2008 at Chicago, USA.
Anniversary:
9th anniversary of the death of F. Joe Mandaza (84) d. 2016 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
Birthday:
32nd birthday of S. Christopher Takudzwa TAMBURAYI (born this day in 1993).
20th 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.
