Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For working conditions (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that through work, each person might find fulfilment, families might be sustained in dignity, and that society might be humanized."
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Friday in the Fifth Week of Easter
Mass of the day. Preface of Easter I - V "...in this time."
Cycle I
[289] Acts 15:22-31;Ps 57:8-9, 10+12; John 15:12-17.
Hours of the day.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1543
Peter Canisius is accepted as a novice by Peter Faber. Canisius is ordained three years later.
1555
At Rome the election Cadrdinal Gian Paolo Caraffa as Pope Paul IV. Overall he was favorable, but he would impose choir. Ignatian remarked to his friends that "every bone in my body was shaking."
1717
The Christian Religion was proscribed throughout China soon after the condemnation of the Chinese Rites by Clement XI.
1874
The death in St. Louis, Missouri, of Peter De Smet, intrepid Belgian missionary, who founded the Rocky Mountain Missions in the western United States and crossed the Atlantic 19 times in search of economic resources and vocations to staff the growing church.
1876
Fr. De Buck, S.J. dies. He was important in the revival of the Bollandists.
1940
Emile Mersch. S.J. is killed by bomb as he was bringing relief to wounded volunteers, on the feast of Corpus Christi. He left an unfinished manuscript on the Theology of the Mystical Body.
1976
Br. Nicholas de Glos, S.J. diocesan inspector of schools, is stabbed to death in Chad, age 65.
1992
Pierre LeRoy, S.J. dies. He was a close friend, correspondent, and defender of Teilhard de Chardin.
1993
The blessing of the new pipe organ, made in England, at St. Ignatius Loyola Church, New York.
