Alt. (from Year A) [31] 1 Sam 16:1b, 6-7, 10-13a; Ps 23:1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6; Eph 5:8-14; John 9:1-41 or 9:1, 6-9, 13-17, 34-38.
In Year C, during the week, Year A's gospel (Jn 9:1-41) may be used [1st R: Mic 7:7-9, Ps 27] Lect. [243].
Hours of the Sunday. Week 4 of the Psalter.
Organ may be played solo; flowers may decorate the altar today. (PS 25, 2002 GIRM 305, 313.)
74th Anniversary of the death of Pope John Paul II (2005).
Anniversary:
124th anniversary of the death of F. António TimóTeo (86) d. 1955 at Caldinhas, Portugal.
Anniversary:
71st anniversary of the death of F. Brutus Clay (90) d. 2008 at Chicago, USA.
Anniversary:
63rd anniversary of the death of F. Joe Mandaza (84) d. 2016 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
Birthday:
86th birthday of S. Christopher Takudzwa TAMBURAYI (born this day in 1993).
74th Anniversary of the death of Pope John Paul II (2005).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1568
At Rome, the entrance of Blessed Rodolf Acquaviva, aged 17, into the novitiate of San Andrea, where St. Stanislaus was then a novice.
1640
The death of Matthew Casimir Sarbiewski, S.J. called the "Polish Horace" because of his poetry.
1767
In Spain, Charles III ordered the arrest of all the Jesuit Fathers and the sequestration of all their houses and goods, being enraged against the Society by a forged letter of the General (the work of De Choiseul), which spoke of him as illegitimate.
1802
Joseph Schneller dies in Vienna, a famous Jesuit preacher.
1872
Samuel Morse dies. He invented the telegraph, and also wrote anti-Catholic and anti-Jesuit literature.
1994
Anthony Lawn, S.J. dies. Basically a prison chaplain, in 1985 he was invited to work for and be an actor in the film, The Mission.
