Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For new martyrs (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that those who risk their lives for the Gospel in various parts of the world might imbue the Church with their courage and missionary drive."
20 Wednesday
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Wednesday in the Fifth Week of Lent
Mass of the day. Preface of the Passion I
[253] Dan 3:14-20, 91-92, 95;Dan 3:52, 53, 54, 55, 56; John 8:31-42.
Hours of the day.
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Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Photina, the Samaritan woman (cf. Jn. 4:4-42) [from the Roman Martyrology].
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Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Archippus, disciple of Paul (cf. Phlm. 1-2) [from the Roman Martyrology].
72nd anniversary of the death of P. Kevin Lenaghan (52) d. 1952 at Rondebosch, RSA.
Birthday:
35th birthday of S. Tafumanei Eric CHIKANYA (born this day in 1989).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1393
St. John Nepomucene dies, being thrown into the Moldau in Bohemia. (In the new RM)
1571
Borgia orders the Jesuits to withdraw from the Florida mission, seeing little or no fruit of their labors. "Shake the dust from your feet."
1597
At Rome the death of Fr. James Terry, a Scotsman. When he was a scholastic, St. Ignatius reputedly appeared to him and told him to study less and pray more.
1873
Jules Lebreton, S.J. is born. Historian and theologian.
1899
Teilhard de Chardin enters the novitiate at Aix en Provence. He joins C.C. Martindale who was already a novice, on rest there to complete his novitiate.
1977
Horacio de Ia Costa, S.J. dies Philippine Jesuit historian, had been provincial and then assistant to the General in Rome.
