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March 2081

9 Sunday
  rose   violetFourth Sunday of Lent
Laetare Sunday
Mass of the Sunday, or of the Second Scrutiny; Creed, Preface of Fourth Sunday (with Year "A" readings) or Lent I - II.
Yr B [32] 2Chr 36:14-16, 19-23; Ps 137:1-2, 3, 4-5, 6; Eph 2:4-10; John 3:14-21.
Yr B Alt. (from Year A) [31] 1 Sam 16:1b, 6-7, 10-13a; Ps 23:1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6; Eph 5:8-14; John 9:1-41 or 9:1, 6-9, 13-17, 34-38.
 In Year B, during the week, Year A's gospel (Jn 9:1-41) may be used [1st R: Mic 7:7-9; Ps 27] Lect. [243].
Hours of the Sunday.
Week 4 of the Psalter.
Organ may be played solo; flowers may decorate the altar today. (PS 25, 2002 GIRM 305, 313.)
Anniversary:65th 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 2081

Dominical Letter  e
Golden Number  11
Epact  xix
Solar Cycle 18
Letter of the Martyrology u
Roman Year of Indiction 14
Julian Period Year 6794
Years since the confirmation of the Society 541
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  525
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 60
Sunday Readings  Cycle  B
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 30 March
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    4 May