| 15 Monday | |
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| white | The Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church | Memorial |
| Mass of the Memorial (Votive Mass
#10B) | |
| These readings are proper to the
memorial.
cf. [572A] Gen 3: 9-15, 20 or Acts 1: 12-14; Ps 86:
1-2, 3 & 5, 5-7; Jn 19: 25-34 | |
| Hours of the memorial (From Votive Masses: 10. Blessed Virgin Mary, B. Our Lady, Mother of the Church.) |
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| | Seasonal weekday readings: |
| | [335] Jas 1:1-11; Ps 119:67, 68, 71, 72, 75, 76; Mark 8:11-13. |
| Anniversary: | 128th anniversary of the death of P. Richard Wiber (49) d. 1956 at Boscombe, England.  |
| Anniversary: | 114th anniversary of the death of P. Patrick Benson (46) d. 1970 at New York, NY, USA. |
| Anniversary: | 80th anniversary of the death of P. Stefan Hirjak (88) d. 2004 at Ivanka, Slovakia. |
| Anniversary: | 69th anniversary of the death of P. Pete Titland (76) d. 2015 at Tacoma, WA, USA. |
| Birthday: | 91st birthday of S. Rodrick CHIWAYA (born this day in 1993). |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 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. |
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