Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For people living on the margins (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray for those people on the margins of society in subhuman living conditions, that they may not be neglected by institutions and never be cast out."
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Monday of the twenty-third week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle I
[437] Col 1:24-2:3;Ps 62:6-7, 9; Luke 6:6-11.
Hours of the day.
Anniversary:
104th anniversary of the death of P. John Ross (62) d. 1919 at St Beuno's, Tremeirchion, N Wales.
Birthday:
49th birthday of P. Nicholas PENGE (born this day in 1974).
Jubilee:
Ruby Jubilee of P. Heribert Ferdinand MÜLLER who celebrates 40 years in the Society today.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1681
Geoffrey Henschen dies at Antwerp. He was an assistant to Fr. Bollandus in the research on the saints.
1860
The Jesuits were expelled from Sicily and all their possessions confiscated.
1995
Henry De Decker, S.J. dies in the Cameroons. He was the first Rector of Hekima College, Nairobi, and was the Secretary of JESAM (Major Superiors of Africa) for thirteen years.
2003
Ignace de la Potterie, Belgian Jesuit, Johannine scholar, dies. Professor at the Biblical Institute.
