Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For formation in discernment (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that we might again learn how to discern, to know how to choose paths of life and reject everything that leads us away from Christ and the Gospel."
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Saturday of the fourteenth week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle I
[388] Gen 49:29-32; 50:15-26a;Ps 105:1-2, 3-4, 6-7; Matt 10:24-33.
Hours of the day.
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Saturday Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Optional
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Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Veronica (Berenike), pious woman (cf. Lk. 23:27) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:
133rd anniversary of the death of F. Manuel de Freitas (35) d. 1892 at Inhambane, Portuguese Eastern Africa.
Anniversary:
4th anniversary of the death of P. David Rowan (SAP) (68) d. 2021 at Johannesburg, RSA.
Jubilee:
Golden Jubilee of P. Eustace SEQUEIRA who celebrates 50 years of Priesthood today.
Jubilee:
Porcelain Jubilee of P. Jacob KAPITA who celebrates 20 years in the Society today.
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.
