Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For parishes (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that parishes, placing communion at the centre, may increasingly become communities of faith, fraternity, and welcome towards those most in need."
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Friday after Ash Wednesday.
Mass of the day. Preface of Lent I - IV
[221] Isa 58:1-9a;Ps 51:3-4, 5-6ab, 18-19; Matt 9:14-15.
Hours of the day.
Birthday:
32nd birthday of P. Luis MATOPE (born this day in 1991).
Birthday:
28th birthday of S. Stephanie BWALYA (born this day in 1995).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1621
Petition from Louis XIII of France to Pope Gregory XV, urging the canonization of St. Ignatius.
1637
At Naples died Father Francis Pavone. Inflamed by his words and holy example, sixty of his class of Philosophy, and the entire class of Poetry embraced the Religious State.
1831
On this day, Fr. General Roothaan’s letter declaring Missouri an independent mission (from Maryland) finally reaches the Missouri Jesuits. Their superior is Fr. Theodore De Theux. He communicated this to the 15 members of the Society in the West. This status gives the mission the privilege of having its own novitiate.
1979
Fr. Francis Louis Martinsek, S.J. is assassinated in Mokame, India. He was born in Pennsylvania, USA.
