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March 2027

7 Sunday
  rose   violetFourth 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 B [32] 2Chr 36:14-16, 19-23; Ps 137:1-2, 3, 4-5, 6; Eph 2:4-10; John 3:14-21.
Yr B Alt. (from Year 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.
 In Year B, during the week, Year A's gospel (Jn 9:1-41) may be used [1st R: Mic 7:7-9; Ps 27] Lect. [243].
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:26th anniversary of the death of P. John Counihan (84) d. 2001 at Lusaka, Zambia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:24th anniversary of the death of P. John Marbaix (71) d. 2003 at London, England. Read Obituary
Birthday:85th birthday of P. Stanislaus ROZMAN (born this day in 1942).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1581A Decree of the Fifth General Congregation binds the Professors of the Society to adhere to the doctrine of St. Thomas.
1675Jean Pierre Caussade, S.J., writer, is born. Traditional author of the Abandonment to Divine Providence.
1693The birth of Pope Clement XIII, a strong defender of the Society. 1801. The Brief of Pius VII, Catholicae Fidei, legalizes the Society of Jesus in Russia. Second Confirmation of the Society of Jesus.
1801"Second Conï¬rmation" Day: Pius VII in his brief Catholicae Fidei conï¬rmed Franciszek Kareu as Superior General of the Jesuits in Russia. Thereafter Pius VII wrote to Kereu as "General of the Society of Jesus."
1867Issuance of the corporate charter of Woodstock College. It would open two and a half years later.
1893Archbishop Thomas Roberts, S.J. is born in France. He learned he was Archbishop of Bombay from a reporter. A liberal bishop.
1980In India, at Sasaram in Patna/Bihar, the assassination of Fr. Matthew Mannaparambil, S.J., parish priest, aged 42.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2027

Dominical Letter  c
Golden Number  14
Epact  xxii
Solar Cycle 20
Letter of the Martyrology C
Roman Year of Indiction 5
Julian Period Year 6740
Years since the confirmation of the Society 487
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  471
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 6
Sunday Readings  Cycle  B
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 28 March
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    2 May