Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the cry of the Earth (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that each of us listen with our hearts to the cry of the Earth and of the victims of environmental disasters and the climate crisis, making a personal commitment to care for the world we inhabit."
12 Thursday
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Thursday of the twenty-third week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle II
[440] 1 Cor 8:1b-7, 11-13;Ps 139:1b-3, 13-14ab, 23-24; Luke 6:27-38.
Hours of the day.
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The Most Holy Name of Mary Common of the Blessed Virgin Mary Readings from the Common of Saints: [636B] Gal 4:4-7 (#710.3); Luke 1:46-47, 48-49, 50-51, 52-53, 54-55 (#709.5); Luke 1:39-47 (#712.5).
Optional
Anniversary:
90th anniversary of the death of P. Patrick Caulfield (67) d. 1934 at Port Elizabeth, RSA.
Anniversary:
64th anniversary of the death of P. Edmund Turner (64) d. 1960 at Port Elizabeth, RSA.
Anniversary:
36th anniversary of the death of F. Joseph Gajdos (81) d. 1988 at Kasisi, Zambia.
Birthday:
24th birthday of NS. Nicholas BWALYA (born this day in 2000).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1540
At Rome, Pedro Ribadeneira, aged fourteen, was admitted into the Society by St. Ignatius. This was nine days before official papal confirmation of the Society.
1557
At Worms, a public discussion opens between Catholics and heretics, in which Canisius took part.
1665
At Antwerp, the death of John Bollandus, one of the first of the Bollandists, the great work of the Acta Sanctorum. He was the successor to Fr. H. Rosweyde who was the founder.
1706
Father Albert Montaldo entered the Society. He was about eighty years old at the Suppression, yet he lived to see the Restoration in 1814, being over 120 years of age. He was one of the 86 members of the Old Society who knelt at the feet of Pius VII in the Gesu on August 7, 1814.
1744
Benedict XIV's second Bull, Omnium sollicitudinum forbidding the Chinese Rites. Persecution followed in China. This is also listed as Sept. l3.
1936
Servant of God Emmanuel González (1889-1936), Martyr of the Spanish Civil War. Accused of supporting the nationalist movement against the communists, he was taken from prison in the middle ofthe night and executed.
