Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the abolition of the death penalty (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "We pray that the death penalty, which attacks the dignity of the human person, may be legally abolished in every country."
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Thursday of the twenty-second week.
7th Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation (est. 2015)
Mass of the day.
Cycle II
[434] 1 Cor 3:18-23;Ps 24:1bc-2, 3-4ab, 5-6; Luke 5:1-11.
Hours of the day.
[RM]
Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Joshua (cf. Dt. 31:7) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:
91st anniversary of the death of P. João Baptista GonçAlves Do Carmo (61) d. 1931 at Baía, Brazil.
Anniversary:
37th anniversary of the death of P. Brian Riordan (78) d. 1985 at Dublin, Ireland.
Jubilee:
Crystal Jubilee of P. Matsepane MORARE who celebrates 15 years of Priesthood today.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1906
25th General Congregation met at the German-Hungarian College in Rome. The Congregation elected Franz Xavier Wernz the twenty-fifth Superior General.
1907
The Buffalo Mission is terminated, dissolved into the New York and Missouri Provinces, and the California Mission.
1937
Baron Pierre de Coubertin dies. Jesuit graduate, Founder of the modern Olympic Movement. Learned of the Olympics from his classical education.
1989
The death of Br. Mario Venzo, Italian artist with exhibits in Venice, Paris, the USA.
2019
Pope names three Jesuit Cardinals. Canadian Jesuit Father Michael Czerny, Archbishop Jean-Claude Höllerich, SJ, of Luxembourg, and retired Archbishop Sigitas Tamkevicius, SJ, of Kaunas, Lithuania.
