Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For a Church open to everyone (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "We pray for the Church; ever faithful to, and courageous in preaching the Gospel, may the Church be a community of solidarity, fraternity and welcome, always living in an atmosphere of synodality."
10 Monday
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Monday of the twenty-eighth week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle II
[467] Gal 4:22-24, 26-27, 31-5:1;Ps 113:1b-2, 3-4, 5a+6-7; Luke 11:29-32.
Hours of the day.
Archdioceses of Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg, South Africa [SACBC]
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St Daniel Comboni, Bishop
MemorialÂ
Common of Pastors
Anniversary:
71st anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Furniss (71) d. 1951 at London, England.
Anniversary:
24th anniversary of the death of P. Charles Hughes (91) d. 1998 at Blackburn, Lancs, England.
Anniversary:
19th anniversary of the death of P. Jock Earle (78) d. 2003 at London, England.
Jubilee:
Blue Sapphire Jubilee of P. Klaus CIESZYŃSKI who celebrates 65 years in the Society today.
Jubilee:
Blue Sapphire Jubilee of P. Klaus CIESZYŃSKI who celebrates 65 years in the Society today.
Jubilee:
Tin Jubilee of P. Ugenio PHIRI who celebrates 10 years since professing Final Vows today.
Jubilee:
Tin Jubilee of P. Francis Gibson MUNYORO who celebrates 10 years since professing Final Vows today.
Jubilee:
Tin Jubilee of P. Tiyowoyechi SILUNGWE who celebrates 10 years since professing Final Vows today.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1549
The Province of India constituted, with Xavier as its first Provincial.
1806
The first Novitiate of the Maryland Mission is opened, at Georgetown, in a house facing Holy Trinity Church. Ten Novices enter. The Novice Director is Fr. Francis Neale, himself a novice who had entered the Jesuits on that day.
1820
At the 20th GC Father Petrucci, Vicar-General, led astray by the turbulent Father Rezzi, was deposed. Father Rezzi was expelled from the Society as a factiosus.
1938
The first golf match is held between the theologians and philosophers at the new golf course at Woodstock. It ends in a tie, but the theologians win two days later in a playoff.
1948
The official blessing and dedication of LeMoyne College, Syracuse, NY.
1949
Letter of Fr. General Janssens, "Instruction on the Social Apostolate." 1950. Jan Korec is ordained a priest in prison in Czechoslovakia. One year later, at the age of 27, he is made a bishop, and a cardinal in 1991. He is released from prison in 1968.
