[144] 2 Kgs 5:14-17; Ps 98:1, 2-3a, 3b-4; 2 Tim 2:8-13; Luke 17:11-19.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 4 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:
149th anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Furniss (71) d. 1951 at London, England.
Anniversary:
102nd anniversary of the death of P. Charles Hughes (91) d. 1998 at Blackburn, Lancs, England.
Anniversary:
97th 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.
