Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the use of the new technologies (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that the use of the new technologies will not replace human relationships, will respect the dignity of the person, and will help us face the crises of our times."
3 Thursday
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Thursday in the Fourth Week of Lent
Mass of the day. Preface of Lent I - IV
[247] Exod 32:7-14;Ps 106:19-20, 21-22, 23; John 5:31-47.
Hours of the day.
Anniversary:
84th anniversary of the death of P. Wilfred Hopkins (68) d. 1941 at Old Windsor, England.
Anniversary:
27th anniversary of the death of P. Gerald McEnhill (73) d. 1998 at Rothwell Farm, Kutama, Zimbabwe.
Birthday:
45th birthday of F. Ngonidzashe EDWARD (born this day in 1980).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1583
Jerome Nadal, S.J. dies who had been a student at Paris with Ignatius and Xavier. He died on Easter Sunday, aged 73 in the novitiate of San Andrea, Rome. He promulgated the Constitutions throughout Europe.
1622
Solemn profession of Peter Claver, in Cartagena, age 42. Petrus Claver, ethiopum semper servus.
1767
Fr. Joseph Pignatelli was expelled from Spain along with all other Jesuits there and at age 30 began his career of holding together a suppressed Society. At age 57, he once again saw the Society permitted to accept novices but he did not live to see its Restoration in 1814.
1767
St. Joseph Pignatelli was expelled from Spain along with all other Jesuits there. He began his career of holding together the suppressed Society at age 30, and once again saw the Society permitted to acceptnovices when he was 57 years old, but he did not live to see its restoration in 1814.
1876
Johann Cardinal Franzelin, S.J. created a cardinal on this day. He was a theologian of Vatican I, linguist, professor of Scripture and dogma.
1960
The death of Fr. Edward P. Dowling, friend of Bill Wilson, the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous.
