Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For new martyrs (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that those who risk their lives for the Gospel in various parts of the world might imbue the Church with their courage and missionary drive."
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Friday in the Third Week of Lent
114th International Women's Day (est. 1911)
Mass of the day. Preface of Lent I - IV
[241] Hos 14:2-10;Ps 81:6c-8a, 8bc-9, 10-11ab, 14+17; Mark 12:28-34.
Hours of the day.
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St John of God, religious Common of Holy Men and Women: For Religious, or For Those Who Work for the Underprivileged Readings from the Common of Saints: [539] 1 John 3:14-18 (#740.16); Ps 112:1bc-2, 3-4, 5-7a, 7b-8, 9 (#739.7); Matt 25:31-40 (#742.13).
Commemoration
Anniversary:
29th anniversary of the death of P. Arthur Clarke (79) d. 1995 at Lusaka, Zambia.
Anniversary:
25th anniversary of the death of P. Dennis Flannery (68) d. 1999 at Dublin, Ireland.
Anniversary:
19th anniversary of the death of P. Robert Kelly (79) d. 2005 at Lusaka, Zambia.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1558
Fr. Nicholas Guadan, disguised as a peddler, entered Scotland as a papal nuncio to strengthen Mary Queen of Scots in her allegiance to the faith.
1566
The Diet of Augsburg, Germany, Peter Canisius, Jeronimo Nadal Diego Ledesma hold public disputations with the Reformation leaders. They were appointed by St. Pius V.
1836
A Decree is issued whereby the Society of Jesus loses the property of the Holy House of Loyola. In the previous year, the Society was dissolved in Spain.
1890
Oswald von Nell-Breuning, S.J. is born. He was an expert in the social teaching of the Church, and lived to be over 100 years old.
1916
Letter of Fr. General Ledochowski, De Doctrina Sancti Thomae magis, magisque in Societate fovenda.
1982
Mitchell Dahood, S.J. dies in Rome, Scripture scholar. President of Catholic Biblical Association, and wrote the commentary on the Psalms for the Anchor Bible.
