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| rose violet | Fourth 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.
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| 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.
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| | 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: | 63rd anniversary of the death of P. Wolfgang Thamm (SAP) (91) d. 2024 at Harare, Zimbabwe.  |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 1823 | The Holy See empowers Georgetown University to confer ecclesiastical degrees in philosophy and theology. |
| 1848 | At Rome the fathers and scholastics of the Roman College, the Gesu, S. Andrea, and S. Eusebio, were dispersed by the Revolution. |
| 1934 | The Pontifical College, Pio-Brazil, is founded in Rome and entrusted to the Society. |
| 1984 | Karl Rahner, S.J. dies theologian, age 80. |
| 2005 | John O’Donnell, S.J. dies age 60. Theologian, Dean of the Faculty of Theology at the Gregorian University. |
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