Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For a non-violent culture (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray for a more widespread culture of non-violence that will progress when countries and citizens alike resort less and less to the use of arms."
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Wednesday in the Second Week of Easter
Mass of the day. Preface of Easter I - V "...in this time."
Cycle I
[269] Acts 5:17-26;Ps 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9; John 3:16-21.
Hours of the day.
15
Readings from the Common of Saints:
Anniversary:
102nd anniversary of the death of P. Michael McMahon (55) d. 1921 at Stonyhurst, Lancs, England.
Anniversary:
83rd anniversary of the death of F. Daniel Shields (72) d. 1940 at Rainhill, Merseyside, England.
Anniversary:
61st anniversary of the death of P. Kenneth Flood (HIB) (31) d. 1962 at Dublin, Ireland.
Anniversary:
36th anniversary of the death of P. Francis X Sharp (76) d. 1987 at Wimbledon, London, England.
Anniversary:
5th anniversary of the death of P. John O'Holohan (HIB) (95) d. 2018 at Zomba, Malawi.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1527
At Alcala St. Ignatius was imprisoned for forty-two days.
1541
St. Ignatius is elected general, after declining the first election. He accepts the second election of April 13th, after praying over the decision and with the advice of his Franciscan confessor.
1602
At Tyburn, Ven. James Ducket, a layman, suffered death for publishing a work written by Robert Southwell.
1964
Joseph Glose dies. A Jesuit Educator, at the center of the Jesuit Education Association for 21 years.
1993
Joseph Sellinger dies. He had been President of Loyola College, Baltimore, for many years.
