Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the Synod (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray for the Church, that she may adopt listening and dialogue as a style of life at every level, allowing herself to be guided by the Holy Spirit towards the world’s peripheries."
23 Monday
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Monday of the twenty-ninth week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle I
[473] Rom 4:20-25;Luke 1:69-70, 71-72, 73-75; Luke 12:13-21.
Hours of the day.
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St John of Capistrano, priest Common of Pastors: For Missionaries Readings from the Common of Saints: [664] 2 Cor 5:14-20 (#722.7); Ps 16:1b-2a+5, 7-8, 11 (#721.1); Luke 9:57-62 (#742.19).
Optional
Anniversary:
89th anniversary of the death of P. Edmund Collingridge (49) d. 1934 at Sinoia, S Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
65th anniversary of the death of P. Charles Shackles (59) d. 1958 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
22nd anniversary of the death of P. LuĂs AbĂlio Goncalves (63) d. 2001 at Lisbon, Portugal.
Anniversary:
16th anniversary of the death of F. Hugo Keller (92) d. 2007 at Pickering, ON, Canada.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1532
Robert Bellarmine is born. in Montepulciano, in Tuscany, Italy. 1549. Jay, Salmeron, and Canisius are the first three Jesuits to receive their doctorates in theology. This followed an examination on October 2nd at Bologna by a board of three Dominicans. The men had been assigned to Ingolstadt, but needed doctoral degrees for that assignment.
1550
Borgia arrives in Rome with retinue of 20-25, from Gandia. 1767. At Santiago, Chile, the members of the Society, kept prisoners in the College since August 26th, were led forth to exile. In all 360 Jesuits of the Chile Province were shipped to Europe as exiles.
1767
In Spain an unusual decree was issued by the royal council forbidding prophecies about the return of the Society to Spain.
1926
Fr. Felipe Millan, S.J. called the Damien of Cullion leper colony in the Philippines, died. He had also been a Master of Novices.
1933
Maurice de la Taille, S.J. dies in Paris. He taught theology at the Gregorian and wrote Mysterium Fidei.
1944
A NY Times story reports in a dispatch from Stockholm that all clergy are to be included in the draft except Jesuits, who are "declared unfit to bear arms for Germany."
1958
Raoul Plus, S.J. dies spiritual writer.
1988
Joseph McBride, S.J. dies promoter of canonization of Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha.
