Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For vocations to the priesthood and religious life (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that the ecclesial community might welcome the desires and doubts of those young people who feel a call to serve Christ’s mission in the priesthood and religious life."
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Monday of the seventh week in Ordinary Time.
Mass ad lib.
Cycle I
[341] Sir 1:1-10;Ps 93:1, 1ab, 1cd-2, 5; Mark 9:14-29.
Hours of the day.
Birthday:
34th birthday of P. Luis MATOPE (born this day in 1991).
Birthday:
30th birthday of S. Stephanie BWALYA (born this day in 1995).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1621
Petition from Louis XIII of France to Pope Gregory XV, urging the canonization of St. Ignatius.
1637
At Naples died Father Francis Pavone. Inflamed by his words and holy example, sixty of his class of Philosophy, and the entire class of Poetry embraced the Religious State.
1831
On this day, Fr. General Roothaan’s letter declaring Missouri an independent mission (from Maryland) finally reaches the Missouri Jesuits. Their superior is Fr. Theodore De Theux. He communicated this to the 15 members of the Society in the West. This status gives the mission the privilege of having its own novitiate.
1979
Fr. Francis Louis Martinsek, S.J. is assassinated in Mokame, India. He was born in Pennsylvania, USA.
