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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. | |
| [RM] | Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Dismas, the good thief (cf. Lk. 23:41-42) [from the Roman Martyrology]. |
| [RM] | Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture the Annunciation to Mary (cf. Lk. 1:26-38) [from the Roman Martyrology]. |
| [RM] | Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Isaac, patriarch (cf. Gn. 15-35) [from the Roman Martyrology]. |
| Anniversary: | 137th anniversary of the death of F. Jacob Glesinsky (33) d. 1892 at Boroma, Portuguese Eastern Africa.  |
| Anniversary: | 134th anniversary of the death of M. Amandus Leroeye (28) d. 1895 at Bombay, India. |
| Anniversary: | 97th anniversary of the death of P. Peter Molloy (58) d. 1932 at Preston, Lancs, England. |
| Anniversary: | 78th anniversary of the death of F. Ignatius Matzke (81) d. 1951 at Grahamstown, RSA. |
| 8th Anniversary of the erection of the Southern Africa Province. | |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 1524 | Paschase Broet, one of the first ten companions of Ignatius, is ordained a priest long before he met St. Ignatius. |
| 1538 | Diego Hozes, S.J. dies. The first Jesuit to die. (even if the Society was not yet officially approved). He was a Spanish priest who died in Padua. |
| 1563 | The First Sodality of Our Lady of Fatima Prima Primaria was started at the Roman College by a young Belgian Jesuit, Jean Leunis. |
| 1563 | The first Sodality of Our Lady, Prima Primaria, was begun in the Roman College by a young Belgian Jesuit named John Leunis (Leonius). |
| 1586 | St. Margaret Clitheroe dies on this day, pressed to death. New RM. She protected some Jesuit Fathers. |
| 1634 | Andrew White, S.J. arrives in Maryland. Mass said on St. Clement Isle, River Potomac, not far from St. Inigo's. This is the beginning of Catholicism in English speaking America). |
| 1847 | Virgil Barber, S.J. dies. A convert to Catholicism, his wife and five children become religious, one of them a Jesuit. |
| 1904 | Francis Xavier is chosen by Pius X as the patron of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith. |
| 1920 | Instruction/Letter of Father General Ledochowski on the use of the telephone. No general permission is given to scholastics to use the phone, and no phones in private rooms. |
| 1962 | Fr. Felice Cappello dies, known as "the Confessor of Rome", for hearing confessions at St. Ignatius Church. |
| 1968 | Paul VI approve new statutes for Sodalities, now CLC. |
| 1980 | Paul Dent, one of the first Missouri Province Jesuits who went to India in the 1920's, dies. |
| 2021 | Erection of the Southern Africa Province. |
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