Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the role of women (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that the dignity and worth of women be recognized in every culture, and for an end to the discrimination they face in various parts of the world."
20 Saturday
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Saturday in the Third Week of Easter
Mass of the day. Preface of Easter I - V "...in this time."
Cycle II
[278] Acts 9:31-42;Ps 116:12-13, 14-15, 16-17; John 6:60-69.
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:
93rd anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Hornig (75) d. 1931 at Bulawayo, S. Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
67th anniversary of the death of P. Christopher Wilmot (88) d. 1957 at Heythrop, England.
Anniversary:
11th anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Groselj (69) d. 2013 at Nangoma, Zambia.
Birthday:
74th birthday of P. Christopher CHATTERIS (born this day in 1950).
Birthday:
72nd 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.
