Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For grandparents and the elderly. (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that members of the Church might always appreciate the treasure of faith and wisdom offered to us by grandparents and the elderly, and be willing to learn from their experience."
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23 Friday
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Friday of the sixteenth week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle I
[399] Exod 20:1-17;Ps 19:8, 9, 10, 11; Matt 13:18-23.
Hours of the day.
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St Bridget, religious Common of Holy Men and Women: For Religious Readings from the Common of Saints: [604] Gal 2:19-20 (#740.5); Ps 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9, 10-11 (#739.5); John 15:1-8 (#742.24).
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Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Ezekiel, prophet (cf. Ez. 1:3) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:
142nd anniversary of the death of P. Charles Pétidy (41) d. 1885 at Sena, Province of Mozambique.
Anniversary:
50th anniversary of the death of F. Michael Cich (58) d. 1977 at Chicago, USA.
Anniversary:
41st anniversary of the death of P. Gerald Finnieston (76) d. 1986 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
Anniversary:
9th anniversary of the death of P. Peter Hackett (BRI) (93) d. 2018 at Boscombe, England.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1553
At Palermo the parish priests express to Fr. Paul Achilles, the Rector of the College, their indignation that more than 400 persons should have received communion in the Society's church, and not in their parish churches.
1637
At Rome, the fourth translation of the body of St. Ignatius. It is moved to a newly designed shrine in the Gesu.
1840
The Belgian missionary Fr. Jean Pierre De Smet dedicated the mission that he and five companions were en route to establish in the U.S.A.’s Rocky Mountains to "St. Ignatius, Patron of the Mountains"
1879
Fathers Depelchin, Law and others arrive in South Africa at Shoshong and are introduced to King Khama.
1893
Benito Vines dies. He was director of the meteorological observatory in Havana, Cuba and an expert on hurricanes.
1929
The Prefect of Rome seized all copies of Civilta Cattolica of July 20th, because of articles that were anti-Fascist. The editor was arrested.
2002
Edward (Ted) Yarnold, S.J. dies, Ecumenist, scholar at Oxford, in the Anglican-Catholic Dialogue.
