Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For political leaders (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that political leaders be at the service of their own people, working for integral human development and the common good, taking caring of those who have lost their jobs and giving priority to the poor."
2 Friday
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Friday of the seventeenth week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle II
[405] Jer 26:1-9;Ps 69:5, 8-10, 14; Matt 13:54-58.
Hours of the day.
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St Eusebius of Vercelli, bishop Common of Pastors Readings from the Common of Saints: [611] 1 John 5:1-5 (#716.10); Ps 89:2-3, 4-5, 21-22, 25+27 (#721.4); Matt 5:1-12a (#742.1).
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St Peter Faber, priest [SJ] Texts in the Jesuit Supplement. (Download Mass texts and Divine Office texts here) Proper (cf. Jesuit Missal) Readings from the Common of Saints: 1 Cor 2:1-5, Dan 3:52, 53-54, 55ac+56, 57-58, 82-84, 85-87, Matt 10:24-27
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St Peter Julian Eymard, priest Common of Pastors, or Common of Holy Men and Women: For Religious Readings from the Common of Saints: [611A] Acts 4:32-35; Ps 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9, 10-11; John 15:1-8.
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Archdiocese of Harare, Zimbabwe
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Anniversary of the Dedication of the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart (1925)
Feast
Mass of the Dedication of a Church, Gloria, proper readings [701-706], Peface of the Dedication of a Church II. Hours of he Dedication, Te Deum.
[RM]
Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Habib son of Gamaliel (the teacher of St Paul) (His tomb, and that of his father, is venerated in Beth Gemal.) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:
140th anniversary of the death of M. Victor Bourdon (28) d. 1884 at Graaf Reinet, RSA.
Anniversary:
139th anniversary of the death of P. Emmanuel Gabriel (36) d. 1885 at Nyamassugo, Province of Mozambique.
Anniversary:
66th anniversary of the death of P. Arthur Graham (76) d. 1958 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
63rd anniversary of the death of F. Maximillian Klopec (83) d. 1961 at Bulawayo, S. Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
39th anniversary of the death of P. Henry Van Roy (81) d. 1985 at Noucelles, Belgium.
Peter Faber (1506-1546) was born in Savoy, France. In 1525, he enrolled at the University of Paris. He was ordained a priest in May 1534. While in Paris, he was among the group of six students who under the leadership of Ignatius of Loyola would form the nucleus of the Society of Jesus, which was founded in 1540. Renowned as a religious scholar, spiritual guide, and talented mediator, Faber was tasked with missionary work and other important assignments throughout Europe. He was a pioneer of ecumenism. He died in Rome in August 1546. Pope Francis, by a decree of “equivalent canonization”, inscribed Faber in the Church’s universal calendar of saints on 17 December 2013.
1644
At Tournai died Father Francis de la Croix, singularly devout to Our Lady. He used to be heard walking about his room saying to himself: "I belong to the Society! I belong to the Society!"
1825
Newspapers report the visit of President John Quincy Adams to Gonzaga High, a few days earlier, to visit and examine the students in Latin and Greek.
1927
Oliver Parks, a young man, opens Parks Air College at Lambert Field, in St. Louis. It became the first federally approved school of aeronautics, and was given to Saint Louis University in 1946.
1964
Gerald Kelly, S.J. dies Moral theologian. Modern Youth and Chastity.
1981
Carlos Perez Alonso, aged 45, chaplain at a military hospital in Guatemala, disappeared and is presumed to have been killed during a period of repression.
