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."
20 Thursday
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Thursday in the Second Week of Easter
Mass of the day. Preface of Easter I - V "...in this time."
Cycle I
[270] Acts 5:27-33;Ps 34:2+9, 17-18, 19-20; John 3:31-36.
Hours of the day.
Archdioceses of Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg, South Africa [SACBC]
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St Marcellinus, Bishop
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Common of Pastors
Anniversary:
92nd anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Hornig (75) d. 1931 at Bulawayo, S. Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
66th anniversary of the death of P. Christopher Wilmot (88) d. 1957 at Heythrop, England.
Anniversary:
10th anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Groselj (69) d. 2013 at Nangoma, Zambia.
Birthday:
73rd birthday of P. Christopher CHATTERIS (born this day in 1950).
Birthday:
71st birthday of P. O. Kenneth JOHNSON (born this day in 1952).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1586
The first and trial edition of the Ratio Studiorum was issued under Fr. General Claudio Acquaviva.
1586
The first Ratio Studiorum was issued under Father General Claude Aquaviva.
1842
Jesuits return to Canada. Superior Peter Chazelle is appointed. 1864. Father Peter de Smet left St. Louis to evangelize the Sioux Indians.
1893
Robert I. Gannon, S.J. is born. Staten Island. He was President of Fordham University, and a famous after dinner speaker.
1955
Pedro Leturia, S.J. dies Rome, historian. He was the founding director of the Archivum Historicum Societatis, Jesu.
1996
Francis McCool, S.J. dies. He had been a professor of Scripture at the Biblicum in Rome.
