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red | Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion. |
| | Mass of Palm Sunday. Commemoration of Lord's Entrance into Jerusalem, Creed, Preface of Palm Sunday. |
| | [38] Isa 50:4-7; Ps 22:8-9, 17-18, 19-20, 23-24; Phil 2:6-11; Matt 26:14-27:66 or 27:11-54. |
| | At the procession: [37] Matt 21:1-11. |
| | Hours of Palm Sunday. |
| | The Commemoration of the Lord's Entrance may take one of three forms, as described in the Missal: Blessing and Procession, Solemn Entrance, or Simple Entrance. The processional cross should be suitably decorated. The blessing of palms may not be celebrated without the following procession and Mass. The blessing and solemn entrance, but not the procession, may be celebrated at a second Mass if many of the faithful are present. |
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The Passion may be read by three deacons, or lay readers with the priest taking the part of Christ, without candles, incense, greeting, signs of the cross or acclamation. At the mention of the Lord's death, all pause and kneel. Where pastoral reasons require it, one or both of the readings before the Passion may be omitted.
At the end of the Passion, The Gospel of the Lord, is said, but the book is not kissed.
Blessed palms remaining are kept, to be burnt for next year's ashes. | |
| Anniversary: | 210th anniversary of the death of F. Gerard Hooy (31) d. 1882 at Christiana, RSA.  |
| Anniversary: | 146th anniversary of the death of P. Anthony Da Cruz (60) d. 1946 at Braga, Brazil. |
| Anniversary: | 143rd anniversary of the death of P. Constâncio Tribut (69) d. 1949 at Pará, Brazil. |
| Anniversary: | 141st anniversary of the death of F. Leo Kodrzynski (70) d. 1951 at Kasisi, N. Rhodesia. |
| Anniversary: | 98th anniversary of the death of P. Georg Sunder (88) d. 1994 at Harare, Zimbabwe. |
| Birthday: | 105th birthday of F. Aaron Ronald NYADAWA (born this day in 1987). |
| Birthday: | 103rd birthday of P. Ireneu Modesto MOISÉS (born this day in 1989). |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 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. |
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