Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For grandparents and the elderly. (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that members of the Church might always appreciate the treasure of faith and wisdom offered to us by grandparents and the elderly, and be willing to learn from their experience."
First Quarter
12 Monday
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Monday of the fifteenth week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle I
[389] Exod 1:8-14, 22;Ps 124:1-3, 4-6, 7-8; Matt 10:34-11:1.
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:
135th anniversary of the death of F. Manuel de Freitas (35) d. 1892 at Inhambane, Portuguese Eastern Africa.
Anniversary:
6th 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.
