Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the pastoral care of the sick (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick grant the Lordâs strength to those who receive it and to their loved ones, and that it may become for everyone an ever more visible sign of compassion and hope."
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Saturday of the fifteenth week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle II
[394] Mic 2:1-5;Ps 10:1-2, 3-4, 7-8, 14; Matt 12:14-21.
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).
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Saturday Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary
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Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Elijah, prophet (cf. 2 Kgs. 2:11) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:
97th anniversary of the death of P. Edmund Delplace (86) d. 1927 at Bruges, Belgium.
Anniversary:
16th anniversary of the death of P. Thomas M. Valiquette (75) d. 2008 at Centennial, USA.
Anniversary:
8th anniversary of the death of S. LuciÌdio Ribeiro (77) d. 2016 at Lisbon, Portugal.
Anniversary:
3rd anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Keaney (SAP) (72) d. 2021 at Lusaka, Zambia.
Golden Jubilee of P. David GORNALL who celebrates 50 years of Priesthood today.
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.
