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Saturday in the Third Week of Lent
Mass of the day. Preface of Lent I - IV
[242] Hos 6:1-6;Ps 51:3-4, 18-19, 20-21ab; Luke 18:9-14.
Hours of the day.
Anniversary:
29th anniversary of the death of F. John Mulligan (88) d. 1993 at Edinburgh, Scotland.
Anniversary:
20th anniversary of the death of P. Francis McKeown (88) d. 2002 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
Birthday:
32nd birthday of P. AlcĂdio Vitorino TEMBE (born this day in 1990).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1541
Ignatius and Codure begin writing the Constitutions.
1548
Canisius leaves Rome to found a college in Sicily.
1553
St. Ignatius' golden letter on Obedience is sent to the Fathers and Brothers of Portugal.
1693
An instruction of Msgr. Charles Maigrot is negative on inculturation in China and reverses the earlier decision which allowed participation in Chinese funeral rites.
1900
At Rome the death of Cardinal Camillus Mazzella, Bishop of the suburban see of Palestrina. His last words to Father General were: "Laetor quod in Societate morior." He was the first Dean of Woodstock College, 1869-75. He opposed the liberal elements in the American and European churches.
1988
Paul Kennedy, S.J. dies Tertian Instructor at St. Beino, 1958-74. A man of remarkable spiritual insight. He once said "We are all fakes."
1995
Michael Lavelle, S.J. dies. An economist, he had been President of John Carroll University and Provincial of Detroit.
