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Second Sunday of Lent
Mass of the Sunday; Creed, Preface of Second Sunday of Lent. Penitential Rite for candidates to be admitted to Full Communion may be celebrated.
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[25] Gen 12:1-4a; Ps 33:4-5, 18-19, 20+22; 2 Tim 1:8b-10; Matt 17:1-9.
Hours of the Sunday.
Week 2 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:
134th anniversary of the death of P. William van den Putten (37) d. 1889 at Dunbrody, RSA.
Anniversary:
121st anniversary of the death of M. Elias Delmas (27) d. 1902 at Boroma, Province of Mozambique.
Anniversary:
27th anniversary of the death of P. Peter Kavuma (79) d. 1996 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
Birthday:
25th birthday of NS. Patrick KAPILI (born this day in 1998).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1615
At Belmont, England, Thomas Pond died. He was among the first to introduce Jesuit missioners into England.
1615
At Belmont, England, Thomas Pond died. He was among the first to introduce Jesuit missioners into England.
1827
Volta, Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastadio dies. He was a Physicist who invented the electric battery. The Volt a unit of the electromotive force that drives current, was named in his honor. He was a Jesuit for a short time, and his father was a Jesuit for eleven years.
1887
The funeral of Father General Peter Beckx, 22nd superior general of the Society, who served his brothers in that office for 34 years.
1904
Karl Rahner, S.J. is born. Theologian.
1955
Fr. Jose Maria Velaz and lay friends open the first Fe y Alegria school in Careacas, Venezuela.
1971
Fr. General Arrupe appoints Victor Mertens as the first Regional Assistant for Africa. The decree goes into effect on 19 March, feast of St. Joseph.
1996
The death of Fr. Peter Kavuma, S.J.. He is the first Ugandan Jesuit priest. He entered the Society as a priest in 1961 and then worked and died in Zimbabwe.
2008
Walter Abbott, S.J. dies, age 84. Edited the English publication of the Documents of the Second Vatican Council.
