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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: | 56th anniversary of the death of P. John Counihan (84) d. 2001 at Lusaka, Zambia.  |
| Anniversary: | 54th anniversary of the death of P. John Marbaix (71) d. 2003 at London, England. |
| Birthday: | 115th birthday of P. Stanislaus ROZMAN (born this day in 1942). |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 1581 | A Decree of the Fifth General Congregation binds the Professors of the Society to adhere to the doctrine of St. Thomas. |
| 1675 | Jean Pierre Caussade, S.J., writer, is born. Traditional author of the Abandonment to Divine Providence. |
| 1693 | The 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." |
| 1867 | Issuance of the corporate charter of Woodstock College. It would open two and a half years later. |
| 1893 | Archbishop Thomas Roberts, S.J. is born in France. He learned he was Archbishop of Bombay from a reporter. A liberal bishop. |
| 1980 | In India, at Sasaram in Patna/Bihar, the assassination of Fr. Matthew Mannaparambil, S.J., parish priest, aged 42. |
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