Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: That art might be a gift that humanizes. (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that art might be perceived as a true gift that humanizes us, lifts up the spirit, and helps us contemplate God’s beauty in creation."
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10 Saturday
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Saturday in the Second Week of Easter
Mass of the day. Preface of Easter I - V "...in this time."
Cycle I
[272] Acts 6:1-7;Ps 33:1-2, 4-5, 18-19; John 6:16-21.
Hours of the day.
Anniversary:
100th anniversary of the death of P. George Canning (56) d. 1927 at Preston, Lancs, England.
Anniversary:
21st anniversary of the death of P. Raymond Kapito (77) d. 2006 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
Anniversary:
10th anniversary of the death of P. Casimiro da Silva Gaspar (71) d. 2017 at Luanda, Angola.
Anniversary:
10th anniversary of the death of P. Michael J. Schultheis (85) d. 2017 at Monrovia, Liberia.
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.
