Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: That art might be a gift that humanizes. (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that art might be perceived as a true gift that humanizes us, lifts up the spirit, and helps us contemplate God’s beauty in creation."
Full Moon
20 Tuesday
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Tuesday in the Fourth Week of Easter
Mass of the day. Preface of Easter I - V "...in this time."
Cycle I
[280] Acts 11:19-26;Ps 87:1b-3, 4-5, 6-7; John 10:22-30.
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:
96th anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Hornig (75) d. 1931 at Bulawayo, S. Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
70th anniversary of the death of P. Christopher Wilmot (88) d. 1957 at Heythrop, England.
Anniversary:
14th anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Groselj (69) d. 2013 at Nangoma, Zambia.
Birthday:
75th birthday of P. O. Kenneth JOHNSON (born this day in 1952).
Birthday:
77th birthday of P. Christopher CHATTERIS (born this day in 1950).
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.
