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Thursday in the Fourth Week of Lent
Mass of the day. Preface of Lent I - IV
[247] Exod 32:7-14;Ps 106:19-20, 21-22, 23; John 5:31-47.
Hours of the day.
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St Turibius of Mogrovejo, bishop Common of Pastors Readings from the Common of Saints: [544] 2 Tim 1:13-14; 2:1-3 (#722.11); Ps 96:1-2a, 2b-3, 7-8c, 10 (#721.5); Matt 9:35-38 (#724.1).
Commemoration
Anniversary:
141st anniversary of the death of F. Gerard Hooy (31) d. 1882 at Christiana, RSA.
Anniversary:
77th anniversary of the death of P. Anthony Da Cruz (60) d. 1946 at Braga, Brazil.
Anniversary:
74th anniversary of the death of P. Constâncio Tribut (69) d. 1949 at Pará, Brazil.
Anniversary:
72nd anniversary of the death of F. Leo Kodrzynski (70) d. 1951 at Kasisi, N. Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
29th anniversary of the death of P. Georg Sunder (88) d. 1994 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
Birthday:
36th birthday of F. Aaron Ronald NYADAWA (born this day in 1987).
Birthday:
34th birthday of P. Ireneu Modesto MOISÉS (born this day in 1989).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1555
The death of Pope Julius III, a cause of grief for the Society. He was a benefactor of the Roman and German Colleges.
1624
At Watten, Father Thomas Stephenson, when dying, besought the novices to reject any thought against their vocation as a diabolical temptation.
1656
The decision of Pope Alexander VII allows Christians to participate in Chinese funeral rites.
1772
At Rome, Cardinal Marefoschi held a visitation of the Irish College and accused the Jesuits of mismanagement. He then removed them from directing that school.
1942
Joseph de Guibert, S.J. dies Expert on Jesuit spirituality.
