Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For children with incurable diseases. (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that children suffering from incurable diseases and their families receive the necessary medical care and support, never losing strength and hope."
Full Moon
24 Tuesday
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Tuesday in the First Week of Lent
Mass of the day. Preface of Lent I - IV
[225] Isa 55:10-11;Ps 34:4-5, 6-7, 16-17, 18-19; Matt 6:7-15.
Hours of the day.
Birthday:
35th birthday of P. Luis MATOPE (born this day in 1991).
Birthday:
31st birthday of S. Stephanie BWALYA (born this day in 1995).
Jubilee:
Porcelain Jubilee of P. Russell POLLITT who celebrates 20 years of Priesthood today.
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.
