[134] Wis 2:12, 17-20; Ps 54:3-4, 5, 6-8; Jas 3:16-4:3; Mark 9:30-37.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 1 of the Psalter.
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Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Matthew, evangelist (cf. Mt. 9:9) [from the Roman Martyrology].
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Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Jonah, prophet (cf. Jon. 2:1) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Birthday:
100th birthday of P. Admire Rufaro NHIKA (born this day in 1981).
Jubilee:
Platinum Jubilee of *S. Mbaya Ngoy, Stephane (ACE) who celebrates 70 years in the Society today.
Jubilee:
Blue Sapphire Jubilee of *S. Ngalo Mpalirwa, Hilaire (ACE) who celebrates 65 years in the Society today.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1557
Melchior Cano is accused of being a heretic in disguise, and so he writes to Charles V, whose confessor he was.
1558
St. Francis Borgia preaches the eulogy for the Emperor Charles V at Valladolid.
1761
At Lisbon, the martyrdom of Fr. Gabriel Malagrida, aged seventy two. Pombal's inquisitors had found him guilty of heresy in a life of St. Anne written not by him, but by the ex- Capuchin, Norbert. He died by strangulation and the flames.
1851
In Rome at the Basilica of St. Peter, Pope Pius IX beatiļ¬ed Peter Claver, "The apostle of the slaves."
1996
Henri Nouwen dies, age 64 in Holland. He was a spiritual writer and teacher, and at the end he lived and worked with LāArche communities. Jesuit alumnus.
1999
Piet Schoonenberg, S.J. dies, age 87. Theologian. New Dutch Catechism, The Christ.
