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."
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Friday in the First Week of Lent
Mass of the day. Preface of Lent I - IV
[228] Ezek 18:21-28;Ps 130:1-2, 3-4, 5-7a, 7bc-8; Matt 5:20-26.
Hours of the day.
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St Polycarp, bishop and martyr Common of Martyrs, or Common of Pastors Readings from the Common of Saints: [536] Rev 2:8-11; Ps 31:3cd-4, 6+8ab, 16bc+17 (#715.1); John 15:18-21 (#718.6).
Commemoration
Anniversary:
44th anniversary of the death of P. Edward Klimas (77) d. 1980 at Warsaw, Poland.
Anniversary:
7th anniversary of the death of P. João Rebelo Valente Pereira Cabral (94) d. 2017 at Porto, Portugal.
Anniversary:
2nd anniversary of the death of P. James Chaning-Pearce (SAP) (81) d. 2022 at St Beuno's, Tremeirchion, N Wales.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1555
A letter from St. Ignatius to Claudius, the Emperor of Ethiopia, urging reunion with the church of Rome.
1700
The death of Paul Hoste, mathematician and expert historian on construction of ships and naval warfare.
1945
The freeing and rescue of 76 Jesuits and others from the Philippine internment camp, as USA troops take over.
1970
William J. Young, S.J. dies writer and translator of Ignatian/Jesuit spirituality.
1982
All Jesuit provincials assemble at Villa Cavaletti at the request of the Pontifical Delegate, Fr. Dezza, and meet until March 3rd.
1984
Joseph Putz, S.J. dies age 99 in India. He was a peritus at Vatican II, scholar, teacher, theologian, editor of Clergy Monthly for 33 years.
1994
Joseph Fichter, S.J. dies age 85, sociologist, writer. He served as Stillman Professor of Roman Catholic studies at Harvard University.
