Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: That the power of prayer might be discovered. (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that everyone in the Church might discover the power of prayer as a personal encounter with the Lord that transforms our hearts and the world."
First Quarter
16 Saturday
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Saturday of the first week in Ordinary Time.
Mass ad lib.
Cycle I
[310] Heb 4:12-16;Ps 19:8, 9 10, 15; Mark 2:13-17.
Hours of the day.
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Saturday Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Optional
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1554
St. Ignatius manifests the desire, if the Society allows, to go to Africa and work on the mission he established there.
1656
At Meliapore died Father Robert de Nobili, nephew of Cardinal Bellarmine. Sent to the Madura Mission, he learned to speak three languages and for 45 years labored with great fruit among the Brahmins of the highest caste.
1679
In Wales Fr. Ignatius Price, pursued for alleged complicity in the Titus Oates plot, dies of exhaustion and exposure to the cold.
1860
At Calcutta, Belgian Jesuits opened St. Francis Xavier College.
1987
Robert F. Hartnett, S.J. from Chicago, was editor of America magazine. January 17
