Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the formation of men and women religious, and seminarians (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that men and women religious, and seminarians, grow in their own vocational journey through human, pastoral, spiritual and community formation, that leads them to be credible witnesses of the Gospel."
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Wednesday in the Seventh Week of Easter
Mass of the day.
Preface of Ascension or of Easter "...in this time."
Cycle II
[299] Acts 20:28-38;Ps 68:29-30, 33-35a, 35bc-36ab; John 17:11b-19.
Hours of the day.
Anniversary:
68th anniversary of the death of P. Richard Wiber (49) d. 1956 at Boscombe, England.
Anniversary:
54th anniversary of the death of P. Patrick Benson (46) d. 1970 at New York, NY, USA.
Anniversary:
20th anniversary of the death of P. Stefan Hirjak (88) d. 2004 at Ivanka, Slovakia.
Anniversary:
9th anniversary of the death of P. Pete Titland (76) d. 2015 at Tacoma, WA, USA.
Birthday:
31st birthday of S. Rodrick CHIWAYA (born this day in 1993).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1561
Gonzalo da Silveira, dies a martyr in Africa.
1605
The election of Pope Paul V who put an end to the prolonged controversies De Auxiliis and would allow no censure to be attached to Father Molina's book.
1613
Fr. Jacques Quentin and Br. Gilbert du Thet arrive to settle on Mt. Desert Island, Maine. It is short lived as the English capture and take over the place.
1815
The readmission of the Society into Spain. But the fathers were again exiled on July 31, 1820.
1909
The death in Quito, Ecuador, of Italian Jesuit Luis Sodiro, a key scientific figure in Latin America, who developed a botanic collection that formed the base for the National Botanical Garden inQuito.
