Mass of the Sunday; Creed, Preface of Second Sunday of Lent. Penitential Rite for candidates to be admitted to Full Communion may be celebrated.
Yr A
[25] Gen 12:1-4a; Ps 33:4-5, 18-19, 20+22; 2 Tim 1:8b-10; Matt 17:1-9.
Hours of the Sunday.
Week 2 of the Psalter.
Birthday:
95th birthday of P. Luis MATOPE (born this day in 1991).
Birthday:
91st birthday of S. Stephanie BWALYA (born this day in 1995).
Jubilee:
Oak Jubilee of P. Russell POLLITT who celebrates 80 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.
