79th World Leprosy (Hansen's Disease) Day (est. 1953)
Mass of the Sunday; Gloria, Creed, Pref. of Sunday.
Yr A
[87] Isa 8:23-9:3; Ps 27:1, 4, 13-14; 1 Cor 1:10-13, 17; Matt 4:12-23 or 4:12-17.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 3 of the Psalter.
[RM]
Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture the Conversion of St. Paul (cf. Acts 9:3–9, Acts 9:13–19) [from the Roman Martyrology].
[RM]
Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Ananias of Damascus (cf. Acts 9:10) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:
133rd anniversary of the death of P. Charles Croonenberghs (56) d. 1899 at Verviers, Belgium.
Anniversary:
90th anniversary of the death of P. Cyril Kilroe (40) d. 1942 at Grahamstown, RSA.
Anniversary:
20th anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Danel (91) d. 2012 at Lusaka, Zambia.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1707
Cardinal Tournon, Papal Visitor of the missions in China, forbade the use of the words Tien or Xant for God, and ordered the discontinuance by the Christians of the Chinese Rites. This was the beginning of the destruction of the mission there.
1918
The death of Fr. Thomas Gannon, S.J., he was appointed three years earlier as the first Assistant for the American Assistancy. Was Provincial of NY and gave America magazine its name.
