Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For health care workers (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "We pray for health care workers who serve the sick and the elderly, especially in the poorest countries; may they be adequately supported by governments and local communities."
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Thursday in the Fifth Week of Lent
Mass of the day. Preface of the Passion I
[254] Gen 17:3-9;Ps 105:4-5, 6-7, 8-9; John 8:51-59.
Hours of the day.
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St John Baptist de la Salle, priest Common of Pastors, or Common of Holy Men and Women: For Teachers Readings from the Common of Saints: [549] 2 Tim 1:13-14; 2:1-3 (#722.11); Ps 1:1-2, 3, 4+6 (#739.1); Matt 18:1-5 (#742.7).
Commemoration
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1506
St. Francis Xavier is born at the family castle in Navarre. Six days later Peter Faber is born.
1994
Three Jesuit priests killed, with 14 others at Centre Christus in Rwanda: Chrysologus Mahame (the first Rwandan Jesuit, age 67), Patrick Gahizi (age 48) , and Innocent Rutagambwa (age 46). Beginnings of genocide in Rwanda, one half million killed in the next seven months.
2014
In Homs, Syria, Frans Van der Lugt is assassinated.
