Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the pastoral care of the sick (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick grant the Lord’s strength to those who receive it and to their loved ones, and that it may become for everyone an ever more visible sign of compassion and hope."
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Wednesday of the fifteenth week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle II
[391] Isa 10:5-7, 13b-16;Ps 94:5-6, 7-8, 9-10, 14-15; Matt 11:25-27.
Hours of the day.
Anniversary:
76th anniversary of the death of P. James Kendal (82) d. 1948 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
39th anniversary of the death of P. Thomas Cooney (88) d. 1985 at Chikuni, Zambia.
Anniversary:
17th anniversary of the death of P. Desmond O'Brien (71) d. 2007 at Dublin, Ireland.
Birthday:
25th birthday of S. Ecklay HAMALENGWA (born this day in 1999).
Jubilee:
Silver Jubilee of P. Peter BWANALI who celebrates 25 years of Priesthood today.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1548
Approbation and recommendation of the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius by the brief of Paul III. Pastoralis officii cura. Through the intercession of Francis Borgia.
1581
St. Edmund Campion was arrested in England.
1637
At Alcala died Fr. Alphonsus Esquera, who is said to have enjoyed the visible presence of his Angel Guardian.
1834
Crowds destroy the Jesuit College in Madrid, and kill 15 Jesuits.
1866
Gerard Manley Hopkins decided to become catholic.
1886
Gerard Manley Hopkins decides to become Roman Catholic.
1978
Opening of a special seminar on the Constitutions in Paris, until August 6th, under Dominique Bertrand.
