Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the elderly (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "We pray for the elderly, who represent the roots and memory of a people; may their experience and wisdom help young people to look towards the future with hope and responsibility."
12 Tuesday
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Tuesday of the fifteenth week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle II
[390] Isa 7:1-9;Ps 48:2-3a, 3b-4, 5-6, 7-8; Matt 11:20-24.
Hours of the day.
[RM]
Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Veronica (Berenike), pious woman (cf. Lk. 23:27) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:
130th anniversary of the death of F. Manuel de Freitas (35) d. 1892 at Inhambane, Portuguese Eastern Africa.
Anniversary:
1st anniversary of the death of P. David Rowan (SAP) (68) d. 2021 at Johannesburg, RSA.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1760
The banishment of Ours from Maranhao, South America.
1936
Arthur Vermeersch, S.J. dies Belgium. Author of Miles Christi Jesu, et al. Canon lawyer, moral theologian. He taught at Louvain and the Gregorian.
1994
Symposium on the Brothers opens in Loyola, Spain, in preparation for the 34th General Congregation.
2000
Fr. Remis Kerketta, S.J. age 47, is shot and killed by assassins. He was a school headmaster, in the state of Bihar, near Ranchi.
