Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the cry of the Earth (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that each of us listen with our hearts to the cry of the Earth and of the victims of environmental disasters and the climate crisis, making a personal commitment to care for the world we inhabit."
19 Thursday
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Thursday of the twenty-fourth week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle II
[446] 1 Cor 15:1-11;Ps 118:1b-2, 16ab-17, 28; Luke 7:36-50.
Hours of the day.
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St Januarius, bishop and martyr Common of Martyrs, or Common of Pastors Readings from the Common of Saints: [642] Hebr 10:32-36 (#716.6); Ps 126:1bc-2ab, 2cd-3, 4-5, 6 (#715.4); John 12:24-26 (#718.5).
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Anniversary:
58th anniversary of the death of P. Norman Dennis (54) d. 1966 at Chishawasha, Rhodesia.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1715
At Quebec died Fr. Louis Andre, who for 45 years laboured in the missions of Canada amid incredible hardships, often living on acorns, a kind of moss, and the rind of fruits.
1773
In Poland Bishop Massalski forbade Ours in the diocese of Vilna to resign the college or interrupt their ministry, till he thought fit to publish the Brief of Suppression.
1819
Jesuit work in Ireland is restored by Fr. Peter Kenny.
1972
The Swiss Parliament repeals the law prohibiting the existence of the Society in Switzerland.
