Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: That the world might grow in compassion (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that each one of us might find consolation in a personal relationship with Jesus, and from his Heart, learn to have compassion on the world."
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Wednesday of the eleventh week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle I
[367] 2 Cor 9:6-11;Ps 112:1b-2, 3-4, 9; Matt 6:1-6, 16-18.
Hours of the day.
Anniversary:
98th anniversary of the death of P. Edward Biehler (66) d. 1927 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Jubilee:
Porcelain Jubilee of P. Anesu Douglas MANYERE who celebrates 20 years of Priesthood today.
Jubilee:
Tin Jubilee of D. Ricardo Sebastian NOGUEIRO who celebrates 10 years in the Society today.
Jubilee:
Tin Jubilee of S. Tafumanei Eric CHIKANYA who celebrates 10 years in the Society today.
Jubilee:
Tin Jubilee of S. Lovemore MASHIRI who celebrates 10 years in the Society today.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1581
Gregory XIII visits the Gregorian, as its benefactor, to oversee the construction.
1817
Archbishop Leonard Neale dies. He was a Jesuit until the Suppression and a President of Georgetown. He succeeded Archbishop John Carroll in Baltimore.
1844
Seventeen Jesuits arrived in Bogotá, Colombia, to e-establish the Society 80 years after Jesuits were banished.
1860
Five Jesuits are killed in Syria by Druses.
1972
Edward "Doc" Bunn, S.J. dies Georgetown President.
1978
Gaston Fessard, S.J. dies Philosopher, author, expert on the Spiritual Exercises.
2004
The Toledo and Castille provinces merge to form the Castille Province.
