Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For a Church open to everyone (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "We pray for the Church; ever faithful to, and courageous in preaching the Gospel, may the Church be a community of solidarity, fraternity and welcome, always living in an atmosphere of synodality."
22 Saturday
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Saturday of the twenty-ninth week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle II
[478] Eph 4:7-16;Ps 122:1-2, 3-4ab, 4cd-5; Luke 13:1-9.
Hours of the day.
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St John Paul II, pope Common of Pastors: For a Pope Readings from the Common of Saints: [663A] Isa 52:7-10 (#719.5); Ps 96:1-2a, 2b-3, 7-8a, 10 (#721.5); John 21:15-17 (#724.12).
Optional
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Saturday Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary
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Anniversary:
30th anniversary of the death of F. Anthony Kowalik (71) d. 1992 at Katondwe, Zambia.
Anniversary:
2nd anniversary of the death of P. Karl Steffens (ZIM) (84) d. 2020 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1536
Favre, Rodriguez, Salmeron, Bobadilla, Jay, Codure, and Broet are granted their M.A. degrees. Lainez and Xavier already had theirs.
1642
Charles Raymbault dies French missionary, the first to die in Canada. He is buried next to Samuel Champlain.
1861
Beaumont Lodge, Old Windsor, the Novitiate of the English Province from 1854-1861, was opened as a College.
1870
In France, Garibaldi and his filibusters drove the Jesuits from the Colleges of Dole and Mont Roland.
1986
Frances Xavier Weiser, S.J. dies. Writer, on liturgy and church feasts. Also wrote a book for youth that sold one million copies, and was translated into forty languages, The Light on the Mountain.
