Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the abolition of torture (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that the international community may commit itself concretely to abolish torture, guaranteeing support to victims and their families."
2 Friday
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Friday of the eighth week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle I
[351] Sir 44:1, 9-13;Ps 149:1b-2, 3-4, 5-6a+9b; Mark 11:11-26.
Hours of the day.
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Sts Marcellinus and Peter, martyrs Common of Martyrs Readings from the Common of Saints: [575] 2 Cor 6:4-10 (#716.4); Ps 124:2-3, 4-5, 7b-8 (#715.3); John 17:11b-19 (#718.7).
Optional
Anniversary:
125th anniversary of the death of F. Alphonse Kury (35) d. 1898 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
26th anniversary of the death of P. Kenneth Nixon (78) d. 1997 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
Birthday:
85th birthday of E. Dieter SCHOLZ (born this day in 1938).
Birthday:
43rd birthday of P. Grant TUNGAY (born this day in 1980).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
St. Mary Anne de Parades (1618-45) the lily of Quito, Ecuador. Her feast is in the Jesuit martyrology. She was directed by Jesuits.
1810
At Rome, Fr. Joseph Pignatelli, fearing the suppression of his community at S. Pantaleo, bade them no longer address each other as Father, Brother, or use the words provincial, Rector, and told the brothers to wear secular dress.
1930
45 novices move from St. Andrew on Hudson, NY to Wernersville.
1987
Anthony De Mello, S.J. dies in New York City. He was a spiritual writer and noted lecturer, on prayer, with insights from the spirituality of the East. In 1998, the Vatican issued a warning about some of his writings. He founded the Sadhana Institute in India.
