[145] Isa 45:1, 4-6; Ps 96:1+3, 4-5, 7-8, 9-10; 1 Thess 1:1-5b; Matt 22:15-21.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 1 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:
64th anniversary of the death of F. Anthony Kowalik (71) d. 1992 at Katondwe, Zambia.
Anniversary:
36th anniversary of the death of P. Karl Steffens (ZIM) (84) d. 2020 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
Jubilee:
Palladium Jubilee of P. Simon MAKURU who celebrates 75 years in the Society today.
Jubilee:
Golden Jubilee of P. Tomás ARMANDO who celebrates 50 years of Priesthood today.
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.
