Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the gift of diversity in the Church (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that the Spirit help us recognize the gift of different charisms within the Christian community, and to discover the richness of different ritual traditions in the heart of the Catholic Church."
10 Wednesday
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Wednesday of the first week in Ordinary Time.
Mass ad lib.
Cycle II
[307] 1 Sam 3:1-10, 19-20;Ps 40:2-5, 7-8, 8-9, 10; Mark 1:29-39.
Hours of the day.
Anniversary:
3rd anniversary of the death of P. Hans Belser (HEL) (93) d. 2021 at Menzingen, Switzerland.
Birthday:
49th birthday of P. Kelly MICHELO (born this day in 1975).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1567
Two Jesuits arrive in Havana, Cuba, as a base for evangelization.
1581
Queen Elizabeth signed the fifth Penal Statute in England inflicting heavy fines and imprisonment on all who harbored Jesuits and Seminary priests.
1607
St. Isaac Jogues is born in Orleans.
1910
The death of Fr. Patrick Healy, S.J. He was President, and second founder of Georgetown University (1873-82).
1920
Vincent O'Keefe, S.J. is born. He was an Assistant, and vicar general under Pedro Arrupe.
1978
Gerald Van Ackeren, S.J. dies. Co-founder of Theology Digest, and editor for 25 years.
1984
Fr. John Srna dies (76) in Czechoslovakia. As provincial of Slovakia, he could make only one recorded trip to Rome.
