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| | Mass of Ash Wednesday; after the sign of the cross and greeting, the penitential act is omitted.
Preface of Lent III or IV. |
| | [219] Joel 2: 12-18; Ps 51:3-4, 5-6, 12-13, 14+17; 2 Cor 5:20-6:2; Matt 6:1-6, 16-18 |
| | (Switch to Vol. II of the Lit. of the Hours.)
Hours of Ash Wednesday; Psalter Week 4 today and until Saturday.
Today at Morning Prayer, the psalms of Friday, Week 3 may be used. |
| | The celebrant blesses and distributes ashes after the homily.
Other persons may be associated with the bishop or priest in the imposition of ashes, e.g., deacons, special ministers of communion and other lay persons, when there is true pastoral need. |
| Special ministers of communion and deacons may bring blessed ashes to the sick and those confined to their homes. If a minister is not available, a member of the family or another person may bring the blessed ashes to a shut-in, using one of the formulas in the Roman Missal to impose ashes. |
| For pastoral reasons the blessing and distribution of ashes may take place outside Mass. In this case, the entire liturgy of the word should be celebrated: entrance song, opening prayer, readings and chants, homily, blessing and distribution of ashes, and general intercessions. See the Book of Blessings, nos. 1656ff. |
| Anniversary: | 156th anniversary of the death of F. Joseph BĂ©dard (44) d. 1889 at Quelimane, Province of Mozambique.  |
| Anniversary: | 82nd anniversary of the death of P. Ludger Boekenhoff (58) d. 1963 at Salisbury, Rhodesia. |
| Anniversary: | 70th anniversary of the death of P. Anthony Williams (76) d. 1975 at East London, RSA. |
| Birthday: | 80th birthday of P. Thomas PLASTOW (born this day in 1965). |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 1551 | The Roman College, now the Gregorian, announces its opening. It begins the next day, indebted to the support of Francis Borgia. The sign reads: "Classes in Grammar, the Humanities, and Christian Doctrine. No Tuition." It begins with 15 teachers and 60 students. |
| 1564 | At Paris, against much opposition, a Jesuit school was opened, College Louis-le-Grand, one of the greatest Jesuit schools. |
| 1599 | By Clement VIII's order, the Generals of the Society and of the Dominicans, with other Fathers of both Orders, met together to settle, if possible, the controversy "De Auxiliis." Nothing came of it. |
| 1622 | 3rd translation of the body of Ignatius, 12 days before his cnonization. Already in the Gesu, it is placed under the main altar in the same urn as now. |
| 1624 | The martyrdom at Sendai, Japan, of James Carvalho, who ministered to miners in the northern islands of Japan until the local ruler turned against the Christians and killed Carvalho by exposing him in the frigid waters of a river. |
| 1892 | John Gilmary Shea, historian dies. He was a member of the Society of Jesus between the years 1848-1852. The Father of American Catholic Church history, he wrote a four vol. History and 15 vol. Dictionary of Native AmericanLanguages. |
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