[147] Exod 17:8-13; Ps 121:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8; 2 Tim 3:14-4:2; Luke 18:1-8.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 1 of the Psalter.
[RM]
Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Hosea, prophet (cf. Hos. 1:1) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:
174th anniversary of the death of P. John Ryan (84) d. 1926 at Tremeirchion, N Wales.
Anniversary:
167th anniversary of the death of F. Joseph Hedley (87) d. 1933 at Tremeirchion, N Wales.
Anniversary:
117th anniversary of the death of P. Edward de Meulder (79) d. 1983 at Jamshedpur, India.
Anniversary:
93rd anniversary of the death of F. Frank Preglj (85) d. 2007 at London, England.
Birthday:
109th birthday of S. Nobert RWODZI (born this day in 1991).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1537
At Venice the Papal Nuncio published his written verdict declaring that Ignatius Loyola was innocent of all charges which had been leveled against him by his detractors.
1546
The First Province of the Society is established, the Portuguese Province, with Simao Rodrigues as Provincial.
1578
At S. Andrea, Rome, the entrance into the Society of Robert Southwell, aged sixteen.
1578
Robert Bellarmine entered the Jesuit novitiate of Sant' Andrea in Rome at the age of 16.
1651
Emmanuel Sigueira enters the novitiate of S. Andrea in Rome. He will be the first Chinese Jesuit priest.
1688
Domenico Zipoli, S.J. is born. An organist at the Gesu in Rome, he was a missionary and composer in Paraguay and Argentina, in the Jesuit Reductions. He was never ordained because of the distance from an ordaining bishop.
1690
St. Margaret Mary dies. St. Claude was her director.
1782
Jesuits in White Russia elect Stanislaus Czerniewicz as Vicar General of the Society.
1996
Richard Michael Fernando, S.J. dies scholastic, age 26,working with Jesuit Refugee Service, in Cambodia, is killed by a hand grenade thrown by a disturbed ex-student, as Richard tries to save others lives.
2002
Richard McSorley, S.J. dies, age 88. Social justice and non-violence.
