Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the use of the new technologies (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that the use of the new technologies will not replace human relationships, will respect the dignity of the person, and will help us face the crises of our times."
10 Thursday
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Thursday in the Fifth Week of Lent
Mass of the day. Preface of the Passion I
[254] Gen 17:3-9;Ps 105:4-5, 6-7, 8-9; John 8:51-59.
Hours of the day.
Anniversary:
98th anniversary of the death of P. George Canning (56) d. 1927 at Preston, Lancs, England.
Anniversary:
19th anniversary of the death of P. Raymond Kapito (77) d. 2006 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
Anniversary:
8th anniversary of the death of P. Casimiro da Silva Gaspar (71) d. 2017 at Luanda, Angola.
Anniversary:
8th anniversary of the death of P. Michael J. Schultheis (85) d. 2017 at Monrovia, Liberia.
Birthday:
90th birthday of P. Georg HIPLER (born this day in 1935).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1585
At Rome, the death of Pope Gregory XIII, founder of the Gregorian University and the German College, whose memory will ever be cherished as that of one of the Society's greatest benefactors.
1607
Brother Benito de Goes, S.J. dies. He was a great explorer of Central Asia.
1836
Anthony Kohlmann, S.J. dies in Rome. Kohlmann Hall, NY Provincial House, was named after him. He won a landmark "seal of confession" legal case in 1813. He was novice Master, Mission Superior, and Rector of Georgetown. He taught Dogmatic theology in Rome for five years, and built the first St. Patrick's church in New York City, located in downtown.
1955
Teilhard de Chardin, S.J. dies in New York City, on Easter Sunday. He was a paleontologist, anthropologist and visionary theologian and spiritual writer.
1979
Joseph M.F. Marique, S.J. dies classical scholar, Holy Cross College.
