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March 2079

26 Sunday
  violetThird Sunday of Lent
Mass of the Sunday, or of the First Scrutiny; Creed, Preface of Third Sunday (with Year "A" readings) or Lent I - II.
Yr C [30] Exod 3:1-8a, 13-15; Ps 103:1-2, 3-4, 6-7, 8+11; 1 Cor 10:1-6, 10-12; Luke 13:1-9.
Yr C Alt. (from Year A) [28] Exod 17:3-7; Ps 95:1-2, 6-7, 8-9; Rom 5:1-2, 5-8; John 4:5-42 or 4:5-15, 19b-26, 39a, 40-42.
 In Year C, during the week, Year A's gospel (Jn 4:5-42) may be used [1st R: Ex 17:1-7, Ps 95] Lect. [236].
Hours of the Sunday.
Week 3 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:86th anniversary of the death of F. John Mulligan (88) d. 1993 at Edinburgh, Scotland. Read Obituary
Anniversary:77th anniversary of the death of P. Francis McKeown (88) d. 2002 at Harare, Zimbabwe. Read Obituary
Birthday:89th birthday of P. AlcĂ­dio Vitorino TEMBE (born this day in 1990).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1541Ignatius and Codure begin writing the Constitutions.
1548Canisius leaves Rome to found a college in Sicily.
1553St. Ignatius' golden letter on Obedience is sent to the Fathers and Brothers of Portugal.
1693An instruction of Msgr. Charles Maigrot is negative on inculturation in China and reverses the earlier decision which allowed participation in Chinese funeral rites.
1900At 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.
1988Paul Kennedy, S.J. dies Tertian Instructor at St. Beino, 1958-74. A man of remarkable spiritual insight. He once said "We are all fakes."
1995Michael Lavelle, S.J. dies. An economist, he had been President of John Carroll University and Provincial of Detroit.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2079

Dominical Letter  A
Golden Number  9
Epact  xxvii
Solar Cycle 16
Letter of the Martyrology H
Roman Year of Indiction 12
Julian Period Year 6792
Years since the confirmation of the Society 539
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  523
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 58
Sunday Readings  Cycle  C
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 23 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    23 April