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March 2021

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: Sacrament of reconciliation (Watch video(Read Reflection)
"Let us pray that we may experience the sacrament of reconciliation with renewed depth, to taste the infinite mercy of God."

9 Tuesday
  violetTuesday in the Third Week of Lent
Mass of the day. Preface of Lent I - IV
 [238] Dan 3:25, 34-43; Ps 25:4bc-5ab, 6+7bc, 8-9; Matt 18:21-35.
Hours of the day.
  whiteSt Frances of Rome, religious
Common of Holy Men and Women
Readings from the Common of Saints: [540] Prov 31:10-13, 19-20, 30-31 (#737.11); Ps 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9, 10-11 (#739.5); Matt 22:34-40 (#742.10).
Commemoration
Anniversary:5th anniversary of the death of P. Bob Dundon (83) d. 2016 at Wisconsin, WI, USA. Read Obituary

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1568The Birthday of Aloysius Gonzaga in his father's castle.
1631Claude Francois Menestrier, S.J. is born. He wrote a classic history of ballet, Les Ballets ancient et modernes (published in 1682), and created a ballet for King Louis XIV.
1764In France, all Jesuits who refused to abjure the Institute were ordered by Parliament to quit the realm within a month. Out of 4,000 members only five Priests, two Scholastics and eight lay-Brothers took the required oath. The rest were driven into exile.
1840Missouri is made into a Vice Province, with Peter Verhaegen as the first vice provincial. Its members totaled 71; 23 fathers, 23 scholastics and 25 brothers.
1956A fire at Shadowbrook. New England Province Novitiate. Four die, one brother, three priests, including the Fr. Minister who was trying to phone the fire department.
1997Quentin Lauer, S.J. dies, age 79. He was a professor of philosophy at Fordham, and a scholar on Hegel.
1998Fr. Anton Luli, S.J. dies at the age of 88. He was an Italian missionary to Albania, and spent 40 years in an Albanian prison, including much of it in solitary confinement.
2005Josef Fuchs, S.J. dies, age 92. Moral Theologian.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2021

Dominical Letter  c
Golden Number  8
Epact  xvi
Solar Cycle 14
Letter of the Martyrology r
Roman Year of Indiction 14
Julian Period Year 6734
Years since the confirmation of the Society 481
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  465
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 0
Sunday Readings  Cycle  B
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 4 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    2 May