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| violet | Ash Wednesday | |
| | Mass of Ash Wednesday; after the sign of the cross and greeting, the penitential act is omitted.
Preface of Lent III or IV. |
| | [219] Joel 2: 12-18; Ps 51:3-4, 5-6, 12-13, 14+17; 2 Cor 5:20-6:2; Matt 6:1-6, 16-18 |
| | (Switch to Vol. II of the Lit. of the Hours.)
Hours of Ash Wednesday; Psalter Week 4 today and until Saturday.
Today at Morning Prayer, the psalms of Friday, Week 3 may be used. |
| | The celebrant blesses and distributes ashes after the homily.
Other persons may be associated with the bishop or priest in the imposition of ashes, e.g., deacons, special ministers of communion and other lay persons, when there is true pastoral need. |
| Special ministers of communion and deacons may bring blessed ashes to the sick and those confined to their homes. If a minister is not available, a member of the family or another person may bring the blessed ashes to a shut-in, using one of the formulas in the Roman Missal to impose ashes. |
| For pastoral reasons the blessing and distribution of ashes may take place outside Mass. In this case, the entire liturgy of the word should be celebrated: entrance song, opening prayer, readings and chants, homily, blessing and distribution of ashes, and general intercessions. See the Book of Blessings, nos. 1656ff. |
| Anniversary: | 209th anniversary of the death of P. William van den Putten (37) d. 1889 at Dunbrody, RSA.  |
| Anniversary: | 196th anniversary of the death of M. Elias Delmas (27) d. 1902 at Boroma, Province of Mozambique. |
| Anniversary: | 102nd anniversary of the death of P. Peter Kavuma (79) d. 1996 at Harare, Zimbabwe. |
| Birthday: | 100th birthday of NS. Patrick KAPILI (born this day in 1998). |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 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. |
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