Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For health care workers (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "We pray for health care workers who serve the sick and the elderly, especially in the poorest countries; may they be adequately supported by governments and local communities."
4 Monday
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Monday in the Fifth Week of Lent
Mass of the day. Preface of the Passion I
[251] Dan 13:1-9, 15-17, 19-30, 33-62 or 13:41c-62;Ps 23:1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6; John 8:1-11 (Year A or B) or Jn 8:12-20 (Year C).
Hours of the day.
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St Isidore, bishop and doctor of the Church Common of Pastors, or Common of Doctors of the Church Readings from the Common of Saints: [547] 2 Cor 4:1-2, 5-7 (#722.6); Ps 37:3-4, 5-6, 30-31 (#727.2); Luke 6:43-45 (#730.6).
Commemoration
Archdioceses of Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg, South Africa [SACBC]
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St Benedict’ Religious
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Common of Holy Men and Women
Anniversary:
65th anniversary of the death of P. Francis Naime (69) d. 1957 at Blackpool, England.
Anniversary:
13th anniversary of the death of P. Manuel Joaquim Pereira (89) d. 2009 at Esposende, Portugal.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1767
The Society was expelled from all its houses in Spain and subjected to great cruelty.
1871
There is plundering of the Jesuit house at rue de Sevres in Paris by the Communards.
1873
In Mexico a law to expel the Society was proposed in Parliament.
