Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For formation in discernment (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that we might again learn how to discern, to know how to choose paths of life and reject everything that leads us away from Christ and the Gospel."
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Thursday of the fifteenth week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle I
[392] Exod 3:13-20;Ps 105:1, 5, 8-9, 24-25, 26-27; Matt 11:28-30.
Hours of the day.
Anniversary:
77th anniversary of the death of P. James Kendal (82) d. 1948 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
40th anniversary of the death of P. Thomas Cooney (88) d. 1985 at Chikuni, Zambia.
Anniversary:
18th anniversary of the death of P. Desmond O'Brien (71) d. 2007 at Dublin, Ireland.
Birthday:
26th birthday of S. Ecklay HAMALENGWA (born this day in 1999).
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.
