Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the Synod (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray for the Church, that she may adopt listening and dialogue as a style of life at every level, allowing herself to be guided by the Holy Spirit towards the world’s peripheries."
10 Tuesday
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Tuesday of the twenty-seventh week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle I
[462] Jonah 3:1-10;Ps 130:1b-2, 3-4ab, 7-8; Luke 10:38-42.
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:
72nd anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Furniss (71) d. 1951 at London, England.
Anniversary:
25th anniversary of the death of P. Charles Hughes (91) d. 1998 at Blackburn, Lancs, England.
Anniversary:
20th anniversary of the death of P. Jock Earle (78) d. 2003 at London, England.
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.
