Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For people living on the margins (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray for those people on the margins of society in subhuman living conditions, that they may not be neglected by institutions and never be cast out."
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Friday of the twenty-first week.
8th Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation (est. 2015)
Mass of the day.
Cycle I
[429] 1 Thess 4:1-8;Ps 97:1+2b, 5-6, 10, 11-12; Matt 25:1-13.
Hours of the day.
[RM]
Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Joshua (cf. Dt. 31:7) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:
92nd anniversary of the death of P. João Baptista GonçAlves Do Carmo (61) d. 1931 at Baía, Brazil.
Anniversary:
38th anniversary of the death of P. Brian Riordan (78) d. 1985 at Dublin, Ireland.
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.
