Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For political leaders (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that political leaders be at the service of their own people, working for integral human development and the common good, taking caring of those who have lost their jobs and giving priority to the poor."
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Friday of the twentieth week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle II
[423] Ezek 37:1-14;Ps 107:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9; Matt 22:34-40.
Hours of the day.
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St Rose of Lima, virgin Common of Virgins, or Common of Holy Women: For Religious Readings from the Common of Saints: [628] 2 Cor 10:17—11:2 (#734.2); Ps 148:1bc-2, 11-13a, 13c-14 (#733.2); Matt 13:44-46 (#742.5).
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Anniversary:
91st anniversary of the death of P. Alphonse Vogt (66) d. 1933 at Grahamstown, RSA.
Anniversary:
70th anniversary of the death of P. James Pendlebury (58) d. 1954 at Leigh, Lancs, England.
Anniversary:
39th anniversary of the death of F. Lawrence Connors (76) d. 1985 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
Anniversary:
1st anniversary of the death of P. Daniel Kamuzyu (SAP) (41) d. 2023 at Angonia, Mozambique.
Anniversary:
1st anniversary of the death of S. Belmiro C. Francisco Molande (SAP) (28) d. 2023 at Angonia, Mozambique.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1558
At the First General Congregation, the question of the General’s term being triennial was discussed as well as the introduction of choir, as proposed by Paul IV. It was decreed that the Constitutions ought to remain unaltered.
1724
Rev. Sebastian Rasle, S.J. dies. He was a missionary, linguist for 34 years with the Abenaki Indians in Maine. He was shot and martyred by English bigots. "Apostle of the Abenakis".
1773
At ropme, eight days having elapsed since the publication of the Brief of Suppression, all the Fathers, Scholastics and Brothers were required to leave their religious homes and disperse.
1837
At Rome, during a severe epidemic of cholera, the Fathers of the Society waited on the sick and dying with heroic devotedness. Father General Roothaan offered to keep 30 orphans at the Society's expense. After the epidemic, the Senate of Rome, in recognition of the heroic self-sacrifice of the Jesuit Fathers, presented six splendid bronze candlesticks to St. Ignatius’ altar in the Gesu.
1936
The death of Servants of God Martin Santaella, Alphonsus Payán, and Emmanuel Luque, martyrs of the Spanish Civil War. They were imprisoned in a prison ship in the harbor at AlmerĂ, in southernSpain. Fathers Alphonsus Payán and Emmanuel Luque were taken off the ship along with a large number of others and shot. Fr. Santaella was beaten and suffocated in a coal bunker on another ship.
