Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For parishes (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that parishes, placing communion at the centre, may increasingly become communities of faith, fraternity, and welcome towards those most in need."
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Friday of the sixth week in Ordinary Time.
Mass ad lib.
Cycle I
[339] Gen 11:1-9;Ps 33:10-11, 12-13, 14-15; Mark 8:34-9:1.
Hours of the day.
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The Seven Holy Founders of the Servite order Common of Holy Men and Women: For Religious (Readings from the Common of Saints: [533] Rom 8:26-30 (#740.1); Ps 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9, 10-11 (#739.5); Matt 19:27-29 (#742.9).
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On this day in our Jesuit history...
1553
Xavier's coffin is opened and his body is found incorrupt, seventy- seven days after death.
1673
Moliere, age 51, dies in Paris, hours after playing the leading role in his play, the Imaginary Invalid. Jesuit Alumnus.
1832
Jesuits returned to Portugal, where one of their earliest tasks was to prepare and preside at the services for the as-yet unburied body of Pombal, the man who had banished the Society from Portugal in 1759.
1900
The Scholasticate at Grand Coteau, LA burns and is left in ashes.
1970
Augustine Ellard, S.J. dies One of the three founders of Review for Religious.
1978
Georgetown University confers a degree on Archbishop Oscar Romero in the Cathedral of San Salvador, for his leadership for justice and human rights. He will die a martyr for justice.
