[134] Wis 2:12, 17-20; Ps 54:3-4, 5, 6-8; Jas 3:16-4:3; Mark 9:30-37.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 1 of the Psalter.
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Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Rebecca, matriarch (cf. Gn. 24, 49:30–31) [from the Roman Martyrology].
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Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture Sts. Zachariah and Elizabeth, parents of John the Baptist (cf. Lk. 1:13-14,41-42) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Birthday:
100th birthday of S. Timóteo Bartolomeu PORTÃSIO (born this day in 1996).
Jubilee:
Oak Jubilee of P. Matthew CHARLESWORTH who celebrates 80 years of Priesthood today.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1590
Nicolas Bobadilla dies. He is the last survivor of Ignatius' first ten companions. He was the occasion of some trouble in the First General Congregation, claiming a share in the government, but he afterwards acknowledged his fault. He was the first Jesuit of the original ten and the only one of the original ten to be 50 years in the Society.
1773
General Ricci enters Castel Sant Angelo, age 70. He will stay there and die there on November 24, 1775. He could not write or celebrate Mass.
1869
Woodstock College of the Sacred Heart opens. 17 priests, 44 scholastics, 16 brothers - the largest Jesuit community in the USA. "Wisdom hath built for herself a house" according to the sermon by the Provincial of Maryland, Joseph E. Keller.
1941
The death of Fr. McGarry, S.J. From the New England Province, he was a spiritual writer, and the first editor of Theological Studies.
1942
Walter Ciszek and Victor Novikov are sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment for spying. This was later reduced to five years in a labor camp. Ciszek was freed in 1963.
