Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For families in crisis (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that broken families might discover the cure for their wounds through forgiveness, rediscovering each other’s gifts, even in their differences."
28 Friday
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Friday in the Third Week of Lent
Mass of the day. Preface of Lent I - IV
[241] Hos 14:2-10;Ps 81:6c-8a, 8bc-9, 10-11ab, 14+17; Mark 12:28-34.
Hours of the day.
Anniversary:
73rd anniversary of the death of F. Alfred Batt (81) d. 1952 at St Beuno's, Tremeirchion, N Wales.
Birthday:
82nd birthday of P. Ronald HIDAKA (born this day in 1943).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1541
The First Companions gather to write the Constitutions of the Society in conformity with the Bull of Approval, "Regimini Militantis Ecclesiae," of Paul III.
1848
In Rome, Pope Pius IX, having intimated his wish that the Society should leave. the city because of the Revolution, Rev. Fr. General Roothaan and the Assistants prepared to depart.
1913
The Imperial Ministry of Education in Japan gives permission to open Sophia University.
