Mass of Palm Sunday. Commemoration of Lord's Entrance into Jerusalem, Creed, Preface of Palm Sunday.
[38] Isa 50:4-7; Ps 22:8-9, 17-18, 19-20, 23-24; Phil 2:6-11; Mark 14:1-15:47 or 15:1-39.
At the procession: [37] Mk 11:1-10 or Jn 12:12-16.
Hours of Palm Sunday.
The Commemoration of the Lord's Entrance may take one of three forms, as described in the Missal: Blessing and Procession, Solemn Entrance, or Simple Entrance. The processional cross should be suitably decorated. The blessing of palms may not be celebrated without the following procession and Mass. The blessing and solemn entrance, but not the procession, may be celebrated at a second Mass if many of the faithful are present.
The Passion may be read by three deacons, or lay readers with the priest taking the part of Christ, without candles, incense, greeting, signs of the cross or acclamation. At the mention of the Lord's death, all pause and kneel. Where pastoral reasons require it, one or both of the readings before the Passion may be omitted.
At the end of the Passion, The Gospel of the Lord, is said, but the book is not kissed.
Blessed palms remaining are kept, to be burnt for next year's ashes.
Anniversary:
98th anniversary of the death of P. Wilfred Hopkins (68) d. 1941 at Old Windsor, England.
Anniversary:
41st anniversary of the death of P. Gerald McEnhill (73) d. 1998 at Rothwell Farm, Kutama, Zimbabwe.
Birthday:
59th 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.
