Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the elderly (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "We pray for the elderly, who represent the roots and memory of a people; may their experience and wisdom help young people to look towards the future with hope and responsibility."
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Saturday of the fifteenth week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle II
[394] Mic 2:1-5;Ps 10:1-2, 3-4, 7-8, 14; Matt 12:14-21.
Hours of the day.
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Our Lady of Mount Carmel Common of the Blessed Virgin Mary Readings from the Common of Saints: [601] Zac 2:14-17 (#707.11); Luke 1:46-47, 48-49, 50-51, 52-53, 54-55 (#709.5); Matt 12:46-50 (#712.3).
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Saturday Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary
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Anniversary:
62nd anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Seed (76) d. 1960 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
47th anniversary of the death of P. Sean McCarron (HIB) (68) d. 1975 at Limerick, Ireland.
Final Vows:
Final Vows of P. Godwin MULENGA.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1576
Gregory XIII exempted the members of the Society from attendance at public processions by his Constitution, Quaecumque sacrarum religionum.
1580
At Lyford Castle, the betrayal and arrest of Edmund Campion and Brother Ralph Emerson by Elliot.
1766
Giuseppe Castiglione, S.J. dies age 78. brother, Painter, missionary to China. Painting of "One Hundred Excellent Horses." The emperor paid him tribute and his funeral expenses. A Jesuit remarked that "he with his art promoted the cause of Christianity more than anyone else had."
1781
In Canada died Father Potier, the last of the Jesuit missionaries in Western Canada, where he had labored 7 years.
2002
David Toolan, S.J. dies, age 66. Writer, assistant editor at Commonweal, and America, and author of At Home in the Cosmos, on science and theology, and ecology.
