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March 2101

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Third Sunday of Lent

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

Yr A

[28] Exod 17:3-7; Ps 95:1-2, 6-7, 8-9; Rom 5:1-2, 5-8; John 4:5-42 or 4:5-15, 19b-26, 39a, 40-42.

Hours of the Sunday.
Week 3 of the Psalter.

[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:

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

Anniversary:

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

Birthday:

112^th 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.

VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2101

Dominical Letter	b
Golden Number	12
Epact	*
Solar Cycle	10
Letter of the Martyrology	P
Roman Year of Indiction	4
Julian Period	Year 6814
Years since the confirmation of the Society	561
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius	545
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province	80
Sunday Readings	Cycle A
Weekday Readings	Cycle I
Gregorian Easter	17 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter	23 April