Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the abolition of torture (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that the international community may commit itself concretely to abolish torture, guaranteeing support to victims and their families."
17 Saturday
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Immaculate Heart of Mary
Memorial
Mass and of the Memorial
Is 61: 9-11; 1 Sam 2:1, 4-8; Lk 2: 41-51. The ferial first reading and psalm may be used, but the gospel is proper to this memorial.
Hours of the Memorial
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Saturday of the tenth week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle I
[364] 2 Cor 5:14-21;Ps 103:1-2, 3-4, 8-9, 11-12; Matt 5:33-37.
Hours of the day.
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Saturday Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary
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Anniversary:
64th anniversary of the death of F. John Buskens (79) d. 1959 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Birthday:
22nd birthday of S. Eliezer Chitoshi CHONGO (born this day in 2001).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1537
At Venice, St. Ignatius and his Companions were ordained deacons. 1558. The First General Congregation is convened.
1537
Ignatius and his companions received minor orders at the house of Bishop Vincenzo Negusanti in Venice, Italy.
1581
Church of St. Mary's, Oxford, Commencement Day. The pamphlet of Edmund Campion, Ten Reasons appears and it is his call to debate. But he will be martyred in less than one year.
1673
Marquette and Joliet are the first Europeans to see the upper Mississippi River. Marquette writes: "We entered the Mississippi with a joy I am unable to express." He names it the River of the Immaculate Conception. He saw it at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin.
1700
A new, stricter law against the Jesuits is passed in Massachusetts.
