Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the pastoral care of the sick (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick grant the Lord’s strength to those who receive it and to their loved ones, and that it may become for everyone an ever more visible sign of compassion and hope."
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Friday of the fourteenth week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle II
[387] Hos 14:2-10;Ps 51:3-4, 8-9; 12-13, 14+17; Matt 10:16-23.
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:
132nd anniversary of the death of F. Manuel de Freitas (35) d. 1892 at Inhambane, Portuguese Eastern Africa.
Anniversary:
3rd 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.
