[103] Isa 55:10-11; Ps 65:10, 11, 12-13, 14; Rom 8:18-23; Matt 13:1-23 or 13:1-9.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 3 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:
96th anniversary of the death of P. Rudolph Kensy (72) d. 1981 at Marburg, Germany.
Anniversary:
80th anniversary of the death of F. Dennis Adamson (50) d. 1997 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1534
Peter Faber, ordained on May 30th, offers his first Mass on this day. 1567. Claudio Acquaviva enters the Society. He will be General under 8 popes. 1580. The First Communion of St. Aloysius from the hands of St. Charles Borromeo.
1544
At King John III of Portugal’s request, Peter Faber left Cologne for Lisbon. He writes that he takes with him relics, twelve heads of the 11,000 martyrs buried in Cologne. He distributed these as he travels to Portugal.
1556
Ignatius, gravely ill, handed over the daily governance of the Society to Juan de Polanco and Cristóbal de Madrid.
1742
Pope Benedict XIV ended the controversy between Jesuits and other religious orders over the Chinese and Malabar Rites by forbidding the Jesuits to continue the liturgical practices they had long used in China.
1807
In London died Father Thomas Lawson, probably the first to spread devotion to the Sacred Heart widely throughout England
1981
John McMahon, S.J. dies Provincial, Tertian Instructor of the New York Province. Official Visitor to Ireland.
2018
Fr. General Sosa announces the beginning of the process of canonization of Fr. Pedro Arrupe.
