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red | Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion. |
| | 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. |
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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. | |
| Birthday: | 103rd birthday of P. Dominic TOMUSENI (born this day in 1972). |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 1528 | Claude Jay, S.J., one of 10 companions is ordained priest in Geneva. 1568. Eight Jesuits reach the port of Callao, Peru, sent by Francis Borgia. 1606. At the Guildhall, London, the trial of Fr. Henry Garnet, falsely accused of complicity in the Gunpowder Plot. |
| 1540 | St. Francis Xavier, who left Rome for India on March 15th, visited on his way the Holy House of Loretto, and there said Mass. |
| 1606 | Frances Martinez, S.J. dies in prison in China. He was the first Chinese admitted to the Society by Ricci, eight years after Ricci's arrival. |
| 1767 | The Society is suppressed in Spain by the Bourbons. |
| 1922 | WWL, Louisiana radio station opens, at Loyola University 1934. Jesuit Cardinal Francis Ehrle dies Theologian, historian; he reorganized the Vatican Library. |
| 1986 | Society of Jesus is officially allowed to return into Haiti. Jesuits had been expelled on February 12, 1964. |
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