Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For vocations to the priesthood and religious life (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that the ecclesial community might welcome the desires and doubts of those young people who feel a call to serve Christ’s mission in the priesthood and religious life."
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Wednesday of the fifth week in Ordinary Time.
Mass ad lib.
Cycle I
[331] Gen 2:4b-9, 15-17;Ps 104:1-2a, 27-28, 29bc-30; Mark 7:14-23.
Hours of the day.
Anniversary:
121st anniversary of the death of P. Reginald Colley (55) d. 1904 at Stonyhurst, Lancs, England.
Anniversary:
8th anniversary of the death of P. Anthony Bex (ZIM) (95) d. 2017 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
Birthday:
29th birthday of S. Francisco João SANTOS (born this day in 1996).
Birthday:
67th birthday of P. Tadeusz ÅšWIDERSKI (born this day in 1958).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1787
At Milan the death of Rudiger Boscovich, among the most famous scientists in Jesuit history. His theory of the composition of matter foreshadowed in part modern atomic theory.
1866
Pope Pius IX wrote a papal brief in favor of La Civilta Cattolica.
1958
Joseph Bonsirven, S.J. dies Scripture scholar.
1964
The Jesuits, 18 Canadian Jesuits, are expelled from Haiti.
1967
Francis X. Roser, S.J. dies A scientist, he worked on the measurement of radioactivity in Brazil.
1977
Calvert Alexander dies. Editor of Jesuit Missions.
2000
Richard McCormick, S.J. dies, age 77. Taught at seminaries, wrote ‘Notes on Moral Theology’ for Theological Studies, and many books on moral theology and medical ethics.
