[135] Amos 8:4-7; Ps 113:1-2, 4-6, 7-8; 1 Tim 2:1-8; Luke 16:1-13 or 16:10-13.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 1 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:
175th anniversary of the death of P. Anthony de Carvalho (35) d. 1892 at Urmbini, Mhanji.
Anniversary:
174th anniversary of the death of P. Lourenço Loubière (30) d. 1893 at on the way to Milange.
Anniversary:
44th anniversary of the death of P. Klaus Cieszyński (SAP) (85) d. 2023 at Lusaka, Zambia.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1539
Paul III approves the Formula of the Institute verbally at Tivoli, his summer residence. This is based upon the "five chapters" sent him by Ignatius.
1561
The first entrance of the Society into France at the invitation and under the favor of five Cardinals. The insolent opposition of its enemies was repressed.
1641
The death of Brother Richard Fulwood, rejoicing that his sufferings from calculus were so intense. As only his head was free from pain, he prayed that it too might have its suffering. (Calculus = stones)
1768
1,600 of the exiled Spanish Fathers and Scholastics were driven out of Corsica by De Choiseul’s orders, the island having been ceded by Genoa to France.
1989
James L. Vizzard, S.J. dies. He supported the rural life movement, and the United Farm Workers.
