Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For a non-violent culture (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray for a more widespread culture of non-violence that will progress when countries and citizens alike resort less and less to the use of arms."
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4 Tuesday
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Tuesday of Holy Week
Mass of the day; Preface of the Passion II
[258] Is 49:1-6;Ps 71:1-2, 3-4a, 5-6ab, 15+17; John 13:21-33, 36-38.
Hours of the day
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:
66th anniversary of the death of P. Francis Naime (69) d. 1957 at Blackpool, England.
Anniversary:
14th anniversary of the death of P. Manuel Joaquim Pereira (89) d. 2009 at Esposende, Portugal.
Jubilee:
Wooden Jubilee of P. George Mtaja BWANALI who celebrates 5 years since professing Final Vows today.
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.
