Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For new martyrs (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that those who risk their lives for the Gospel in various parts of the world might imbue the Church with their courage and missionary drive."
3 Sunday
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Third 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 B
[29] Exod 20:1-17 or 20:1-3, 7-8, 12-17; Ps 19:8, 9, 10, 11; 1 Cor 1:22-25; John 2:13-25.
Yr B
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 B, during the week, Year A's gospel (Jn 4:5-32) may be used [1st R: Ex 17:1-7, Ps 95] Lect. [236].
Hours of the Sunday.
Week 3 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:
63rd anniversary of the death of F. Emanuel Gonçalves (87) d. 1961 at Cernache, Portugal.
Anniversary:
13th anniversary of the death of P. Zenon Pilsyk (83) d. 2011 at Lusaka, Zambia.
Anniversary:
10th anniversary of the death of P. Frederick Kabwe (55) d. 2014 at Chikuni, Zambia.
Birthday:
86th birthday of P. Clive DILLON-MALONE (born this day in 1938).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1591
At Rome during a great pestilence, St. Aloysius caught the infection through serving the plague-stricken in the hospital "della Consolazione".
1595
At Tyburn, Fr. Robert Southwell, after long and terrible suffering, dies for his faith.
1595
Clement VIII raised Robert Bellarmine to the Cardinalate, saying that the Church had not his equal in learning.
2008
Meinrad Hebga, S.J. dies age 79. Popular Healer, Exorcist of West Africa, Inculturation.
2014
Announce forthcoming letter of Fr. General on intellectual formation.
