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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First Sunday of Lent
Mass of the Sunday; Creed, Preface of First Sunday of Lent. The beginning of the penitential season may be marked in some way, e.g. by Litany of Saints in Entrance Procession. (PS, 23) Rite of Election (Enrollment of Names) for the catechumens.
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[22] Gen 2:7-9; 3:1-7; Ps 51:3-4, 5-6, 12-13, 14+17; Rom 5:12-19 or 5:12, 17-19; Matt 4:1-11.
Hours of the Sunday.
Week 1 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:
78th anniversary of the death of P. Philip Hobart (67) d. 1945 at Sheffield, England.
Anniversary:
21st anniversary of the death of P. Felix Kalebwe (65) d. 2002 at Lusaka, Zambia.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1611
At Ferrara died Father Anthony Possevino, employed by Gregory XIII on many important embassies to Sweden, Russia, Poland and Germany. Colleges and seminaries were opened by him at Cracow, Olmutz, Prague, Braunsberg, and Vilna. With all his labors he found time to write 24 books on history, sculpture and science.
1878
At Rome died Father Angelo Secchi, one of the leading modern astronomers. He is honored with a bust in the Concellaria and on the Pincio. He taught physics at Georgetown and made the first general spectral classification of the stars at the Vatican Observatory. Inventor of the Secchi disk, to measure water transparency.
1932
Hartman Grisar dies at Innsbruck. He was a Reformation historian and a Lutheran scholar.
1984
James Finnegan, S.J. New York Province, is killed in Beirut, Lebanon by stray shell fire.
