Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the use of the new technologies (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that the use of the new technologies will not replace human relationships, will respect the dignity of the person, and will help us face the crises of our times."
4 Friday
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Friday in the Fourth Week of Lent
Mass of the day. Preface of Lent I - IV
[248] Wis 2:1a, 12-22;Ps 34:17-18, 19-20, 21+23; John 7:1-2, 10, 25-30
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:
68th anniversary of the death of P. Francis Naime (69) d. 1957 at Blackpool, England.
Anniversary:
16th 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.
