Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: Fundamental rights (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "We pray for those who risk their lives while fighting for fundamental rights under dictatorships, authoritarian regimes and even in democracies in crisis."
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Saturday in the Second Week of Easter
Mass of the day. Preface of Easter I - V "...in this time."
Cycle I
[272] Acts 6:1-7;Ps 33:1-2, 4-5, 18-19; John 6:16-21.
Hours of the day.
Birthday:
38th birthday of P. Lodewicus BARNARD (born this day in 1983).
Jubilee:
Blue Sapphire Jubilee of P. Georg HIPLER who celebrates 65 years in the Society today.
Jubilee:
Coral Jubilee of P. Stephen BUCKLAND who celebrates 35 years of Priesthood today.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1680
Bl. Kateri Tekakwitha dies. After receiving the Eucharist and the Anointing of the Sick (Extreme Unction) she dies saying, "Jesus, I love you."
1761
The French Parliament being appealed to in the Lavalette affair, demand a copy of the Institute. King Louis XV proposes that the Jesuits modify their Rule. Clement XIII writes to the king, expressing his alarm at the attacks on the Jesuits. On hearing of proposed modifications, he uttered the famous exclamation. "Sint ut sunt aut non sint."
1909
America magazine begins publication. First issue on this day.
1927
Decree that all Jesuits and Jesuit works of the Philippines be transferred from the Aragon Province to the Maryland/New York Province.
