Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the elderly (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "We pray for the elderly, who represent the roots and memory of a people; may their experience and wisdom help young people to look towards the future with hope and responsibility."
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Wednesday of the sixteenth week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle II
[397] Jer 1:1, 4-10;Ps 71:1-2, 3-4a, 5-6ab, 15+17; Matt 13:1-9.
Hours of the day.
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St Apollinaris, bishop and martyr Common of Martyrs, or Common of Pastors Readings from the Common of Saints: [601B] Ezek 34:11-16 (#719.9); Ps 23:1-3a, 4, 5, 6 (#721.2); John 10:11-16 (#724.10).
Optional
[RM]
Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Elijah, prophet (cf. 2 Kgs. 2:11) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:
95th anniversary of the death of P. Edmund Delplace (86) d. 1927 at Bruges, Belgium.
Anniversary:
14th anniversary of the death of P. Thomas M. Valiquette (75) d. 2008 at Centennial, USA.
Anniversary:
6th anniversary of the death of S. Lucídio Ribeiro (77) d. 2016 at Lisbon, Portugal.
Anniversary:
1st anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Keaney (SAP) (72) d. 2021 at Lusaka, Zambia.
Birthday:
23rd birthday of S. Eusébio Mariano SAMUEL (born this day in 1999).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1541
Pope Paul III assigned the church of Our Lady of the Way to the Society of Jesus. It was a small church but St. Ignatius highly esteemed its location in the heart of Rome.
1624
At Cracow died John Laskowski, a Polish scholastic, who though not conscious of any mortal sin in his whole life was nonetheless so tormented with scruples that his confessor considered him a martyr of interior suffering.
1872
At Rome, gangs of miscreants paraded the streets crying out: "Death to the Friars! Death to the Jesuits!."
1900
The death in China of Sts. Paul Denn and Leo Mangin, martyrs of the Boxer Rebellion; the Church celebrates their feast on Feb. 4.
1944
An abortive plot against Hitler by General Claus von Stauffenberg and his assistants resulted in the arrest of the Jesuit, Alfred Delp.
1986
The Third World Congress of Jesuit Alumni/ae takes place at Versailles, preceded by a pilgrimage to Chartres.
