Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the terminally ill (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that the sick who are in the final stages of life, and their families, receive the necessary medical and human care and accompaniment."
21 Wednesday
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Wednesday in the First Week of Lent
Mass of the day. Preface of Lent I - IV
[226] Jonah 3:1-10;Ps 51:3-4, 12-13, 18-19; Luke 11:29-32.
Hours of the day.
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St Peter Damian, bishop and doctor of the Church Common of Doctors of the Church, or Common of Pastors, or Readings from the Common of Saints: [534] 2 Tim 4:1-5 (#728.7); Ps 16:1-2+5, 7-8, 11 (#739.3); John 15:1-8 (#742.24).
Commemoration
Anniversary:
18th anniversary of the death of F. Vincent McArdle (79) d. 2006 at Manchester, England.
Anniversary:
13th anniversary of the death of P. Gerry Lorriman (96) d. 2011 at Cape Town, RSA.
Anniversary:
12th anniversary of the death of P. Richard Cremins (89) d. 2012 at Dublin, Ireland.
Anniversary:
7th anniversary of the death of F. Peter Doyle (HIB) (84) d. 2017 at Dublin, Ireland.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1595
At Tyburn, the martyrdom of Robert Southwell after he had suffered brutal tortures in Topcliffe's house and in prison. He embraced the gaoler who brought him word that he was to be executed. As he breathed his last, Lord Mountjoy, who presided over the execution, exclaimed: "May my soul be one day with that of this man."
1608
The GC 6 was convened. The sixty-four members of the Congregation conï¬rmed Aquaviva’s leadership and their conï¬dence in him.
1616
At Seville died Father Alphonsus Rodriguez, full of days and merits, for he had reached the 90th year of his age and the 70th in the Society. He had been Master of Novices for 40 years and wrote that golden work The Practice of Christian Perfection, one of the most influential spiritual works ever written. There have been 50 editions in Spanish, and it has been translated into twenty four languages.
1900
Fr. Genicot, S.J. dies Professor of Moral Theology at Louvain, age 44.
1984
Francis Rouleau, S.J. dies He was an historian and expert on the Chinese Rites Controversy.
2001
Pope John Paul II creates forty four new cardinals, including Cardinal Avery Dulles, S.J.
