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."
9 Wednesday
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Wednesday in the Fifth Week of Lent
Mass of the day. Preface of the Passion I
[253] Dan 3:14-20, 91-92, 95;Dan 3:52, 53, 54, 55, 56; John 8:31-42.
Hours of the day.
Anniversary:
42nd anniversary of the death of P. Alfons Pollet (51) d. 1983 at London, England.
Anniversary:
35th anniversary of the death of P. John Carroll (NEN) (67) d. 1990 at Likuni, Malawi.
Birthday:
53rd birthday of P. Rampeoane HLOBO (born this day in 1972).
Birthday:
91st birthday of P. Emmanuel KUJUR (born this day in 1934).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1553
Ignatius sends Jerome Nadal as Commissary into Spain to publish the Constitutions.
1615
William Weston, S.J. dies at Valladolid.
1879
Angelo M. Paresci, S.J. dies at Woodstock. He was the founder and first Rector of Woodstock College.
1905
The amputation of the right arm of Fr. General Luis Martin.
1913
Pope St. Pius X spoke his praises of the Apostleship of Prayer. It counted 25 million members. The periodical The Messenger of the Sacred Heart appears in 42 editions in more than 20 languages.
1934
Aloysius Pieris, S.J. born. Sri Lanka theologian.
1998
John Coventry, S.J. dies Provincial, theologian, writer, of Great Britain.
