Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the use of the new technologies (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that the use of the new technologies will not replace human relationships, will respect the dignity of the person, and will help us face the crises of our times."
7 Monday
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Monday in the Fifth Week of Lent
Mass of the day. Preface of the Passion I
[251] Dan 13:1-9, 15-17, 19-30, 33-62 or 13:41c-62;Ps 23:1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6; John 8:1-11 (Year A or B) or Jn 8:12-20 (Year C).
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.
