Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the role of women (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that the dignity and worth of women be recognized in every culture, and for an end to the discrimination they face in various parts of the world."
12 Friday
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Friday in the Second Week of Easter
Mass of the day. Preface of Easter I - V "...in this time."
Cycle II
[271] Acts 5:34-42;Ps 27:1, 4, 13-14; John 6:1-15.
Hours of the day.
Archdioceses of Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg, South Africa [SACBC]
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St Zeno of Verona, Bishop
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Common of Pastors
Birthday:
79th birthday of F. Benedict NGAWASEKE (born this day in 1945).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
St. Joseph Moscati, lay person, doctor, in Naples. Feast, in the New RM. Influenced by Jesuits and Jesuit parish.
1541
A First edition of the Constitutions approved, and signed by the six companions present in Rome: Ignatius, Lainez, Salmeron, Codure, Broet, and Jay.
1573
At Rome, the opening of the Third General Congregation during which Everard Mercurian was elected General.
1599
Fr. Luis de Molina’s book De Scientia Media, received the approval of the Spanish Inquisition, but further inflamed theological controversies.
1671
Francis Borgia, the 3rd General, is canonized by Pope Clement X. 1726. In Cairo, Claudio Sicard dies, a missionary and explorer of the Nile.
1977
Bishop Vincent Kennally, S.J. dies Missionary to the Pacific Islands.
