Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the pastoral care of the sick (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick grant the Lord’s strength to those who receive it and to their loved ones, and that it may become for everyone an ever more visible sign of compassion and hope."
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Wednesday of the sixteenth week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle II
[397] Jer 1:1, 4-10;Ps 71:1-2, 3-4a, 5-6ab, 15+17; Matt 13:1-9.
Hours of the day.
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St Sharbel Makhlūf, priest [2002 RM] Common of Pastors, or Common of Holy Men and Women Readings from the Common of Saints: [604A] Sir 3:17-24 (#737.13); Ps 15:2-3ab, 3cd-4ab, 5 (#739.2); Matt 19:27-29 (#742.9).
Optional
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Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture the Three magi (cf. Mt. 2:10-11) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:
134th anniversary of the death of P. Alfred Weld (67) d. 1890 at Grahamstown, RSA.
Anniversary:
103rd anniversary of the death of F. Peter Schafer (40) d. 1921 at Grahamstown, RSA.
Anniversary:
26th anniversary of the death of P. Frederick Moriarty (64) d. 1998 at Dublin, Ireland.
Jubilee:
Porcelain Jubilee of P. Courage Rodwell BAKASA who celebrates 20 years in the Society today.
Jubilee:
Porcelain Jubilee of P. Anold MOYO who celebrates 20 years in the Society today.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1575
In Rome Fr. Robert Parsons enters the Society.
1804
Maryland, Fr. Robert Molyneux is appointed First Superior by Fr. General Gruber.
1861
The purchase of the Roehampton property by the Society. The owners thought they were selling it to the Queen as a residence for the Prince of Wales.
1936
The death of S.G. Braulio MartĂnez and Lawrence Isla, martyrs of the Spanish Civil War.
1950
John Birkmeyer, N.S.J. dies Novice drowns at St. Andrew on Hudson, New York in the Hudson River.
