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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 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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| 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: | 81st anniversary of the death of P. Francis Naime (69) d. 1957 at Blackpool, England.  |
| Anniversary: | 29th anniversary of the death of P. Manuel Joaquim Pereira (89) d. 2009 at Esposende, Portugal. |
| Jubilee: | Porcelain Jubilee of P. George Mtaja BWANALI who celebrates 20 years since professing Final Vows today. |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 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. |
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