Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: Fundamental rights (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "We pray for those who risk their lives while fighting for fundamental rights under dictatorships, authoritarian regimes and even in democracies in crisis."
24 Saturday
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Saturday in the Third Week of Easter
Mass of the day. Preface of Easter I - V "...in this time."
Cycle I
[278] Acts 9:31-42;Ps 116:12-13, 14-15, 16-17; John 6:60-69.
Hours of the day.
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St Fidelis of Sigmaringen, priest and martyr
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(Common of Martyrs, or Common of Pastors Readings from the Common of Saints: [554] Col 1:24-29 (#722.9); Ps 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9 (#715.2); John 17:20-26 (#742.26).)
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Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture Sts. Mary Cleopas, Salome and the other women disciples of Jesus (cf. Jn. 19:25, Mk. 16:1-2) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:
46th anniversary of the death of P. Phelim Rooney (70) d. 1975 at Oxford, England.
Birthday:
40th birthday of P. Nobert MUNEKANI (born this day in 1981).
Birthday:
27th birthday of S. Manuel Chingole MÃRIO (born this day in 1994).
Birthday:
34th birthday of S. Talent RUNGANO (born this day in 1987).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1774
Christopher de Beaumont, Archbishop of Paris, wrote to Clement XIV, regretting the Brief of Suppression. In 1775 the French Cardinals declined to receive the Brief because it threatened disaster to the Church.
1774
Christopher de Beaumont, Archbishop of Paris, wrote to Pope Clement XIV, regretting the Brief of Suppression.
1928
The Jesuit Church of the Blessed Sacrament, in Hollywood, CA, while yet unfinished, holds an opening service. Cecil is born. deMille attends and Jackie Coogan does a reading.
1934
Leo O'Donovan, S.J. is born. Theologian, President of Georgetown University.
