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| violet | Ash Wednesday | |
| | Mass of Ash Wednesday; after the sign of the cross and greeting, the penitential act is omitted.
Preface of Lent III or IV. |
| | [219] Joel 2: 12-18; Ps 51:3-4, 5-6, 12-13, 14+17; 2 Cor 5:20-6:2; Matt 6:1-6, 16-18 |
| | (Switch to Vol. II of the Lit. of the Hours.)
Hours of Ash Wednesday; Psalter Week 4 today and until Saturday.
Today at Morning Prayer, the psalms of Friday, Week 3 may be used. |
| | The celebrant blesses and distributes ashes after the homily.
Other persons may be associated with the bishop or priest in the imposition of ashes, e.g., deacons, special ministers of communion and other lay persons, when there is true pastoral need. |
| Special ministers of communion and deacons may bring blessed ashes to the sick and those confined to their homes. If a minister is not available, a member of the family or another person may bring the blessed ashes to a shut-in, using one of the formulas in the Roman Missal to impose ashes. |
| For pastoral reasons the blessing and distribution of ashes may take place outside Mass. In this case, the entire liturgy of the word should be celebrated: entrance song, opening prayer, readings and chants, homily, blessing and distribution of ashes, and general intercessions. See the Book of Blessings, nos. 1656ff. |
| Anniversary: | 79th anniversary of the death of P. Bob Dundon (83) d. 2016 at Wisconsin, WI, USA.  |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 1568 | The Birthday of Aloysius Gonzaga in his father's castle. |
| 1631 | Claude 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. |
| 1764 | In 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. |
| 1840 | Missouri 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. |
| 1956 | A 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. |
| 1997 | Quentin Lauer, S.J. dies, age 79. He was a professor of philosophy at Fordham, and a scholar on Hegel. |
| 1998 | Fr. 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. |
| 2005 | Josef Fuchs, S.J. dies, age 92. Moral Theologian. |
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