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March 2050

20 Sunday

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Fourth Sunday of Lent
Laetare Sunday

Mass of the Sunday, or of the Second Scrutiny; Creed, Preface of Fourth Sunday (with Year "A" readings) or Lent I - II.

Yr A

[31] 1 Sam 16:1b, 6-7, 10-13a; Ps 23:1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6; Eph 5:8-14; John 9:1-41 or 9:1, 6-9, 13-17, 34-38.

Hours of the Sunday.
Week 4 of the Psalter.

Organ may be played solo; flowers may decorate the altar today. (PS 25, 2002 GIRM 305, 313.)

[RM]

Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Photina, the Samaritan woman (cf. Jn. 4:4-42) [from the Roman Martyrology].

[RM]

Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Archippus, disciple of Paul (cf. Phlm. 1-2) [from the Roman Martyrology].

Anniversary:

153^rd anniversary of the death of P. Joseph EtterlĂ© (37) d. 1897 at Caia, l Zambezi.

Anniversary:

98^th anniversary of the death of P. Kevin Lenaghan (52) d. 1952 at Rondebosch, RSA.

Birthday:

61^st birthday of S. Tafumanei Eric CHIKANYA (born this day in 1989).

Jubilee:

Platinum Jubilee of P. Brian MACGARRY who celebrates 70 years since professing Final Vows today.

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.

VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2050

Dominical Letter	b
Golden Number	18
Epact	vi
Solar Cycle	15
Letter of the Martyrology	f
Roman Year of Indiction	13
Julian Period	Year 6763
Years since the confirmation of the Society	510
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius	494
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province	29
Sunday Readings	Cycle A
Weekday Readings	Cycle II
Gregorian Easter	10 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter	17 April