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March 2090

26 Sunday
  rose   violetFourth Sunday of Lent
Laetare Sunday
Mass of the Sunday, or of the Second Scrutiny; Creed, Preface of Fourth Sunday (with Year "A" readings) or Lent I - II.
Yr B [32] 2Chr 36:14-16, 19-23; Ps 137:1-2, 3, 4-5, 6; Eph 2:4-10; John 3:14-21.
Yr B Alt. (from Year A) [31] 1 Sam 16:1b, 6-7, 10-13a; Ps 23:1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6; Eph 5:8-14; John 9:1-41 or 9:1, 6-9, 13-17, 34-38.
 In Year B, during the week, Year A's gospel (Jn 9:1-41) may be used [1st R: Mic 7:7-9; Ps 27] Lect. [243].
Hours of the Sunday.
Week 4 of the Psalter.
Organ may be played solo; flowers may decorate the altar today. (PS 25, 2002 GIRM 305, 313.)
Anniversary:97th anniversary of the death of F. John Mulligan (88) d. 1993 at Edinburgh, Scotland. Read Obituary
Anniversary:88th anniversary of the death of P. Francis McKeown (88) d. 2002 at Harare, Zimbabwe. Read Obituary
Birthday:100th 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 2090

Dominical Letter  A
Golden Number  1
Epact  xxix
Solar Cycle 27
Letter of the Martyrology N
Roman Year of Indiction 8
Julian Period Year 6803
Years since the confirmation of the Society 550
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  534
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 69
Sunday Readings  Cycle  B
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 16 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    23 April