Alt. (from Year A) [31] 1 Sam 16:1b, 6-7, 10-13a; Ps 23:1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6; Eph 5:8-14; John 9:1-41 or 9:1, 6-9, 13-17, 34-38.
In Year B, during the week, Year A's gospel (Jn 9:1-41) may be used [1st R: Mic 7:7-9; Ps 27] Lect. [243].
Hours of the Sunday. Week 4 of the Psalter.
Organ may be played solo; flowers may decorate the altar today. (PS 25, 2002 GIRM 305, 313.)
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Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Dismas, the good thief (cf. Lk. 23:41-42) [from the Roman Martyrology].
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Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture the Annunciation to Mary (cf. Lk. 1:26-38) [from the Roman Martyrology].
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Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Isaac, patriarch (cf. Gn. 15-35) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:
171st anniversary of the death of F. Jacob Glesinsky (33) d. 1892 at Boroma, Portuguese Eastern Africa.
Anniversary:
168th anniversary of the death of M. Amandus Leroeye (28) d. 1895 at Bombay, India.
Anniversary:
131st anniversary of the death of P. Peter Molloy (58) d. 1932 at Preston, Lancs, England.
Anniversary:
112th anniversary of the death of F. Ignatius Matzke (81) d. 1951 at Grahamstown, RSA.
42nd Anniversary of the erection of the Southern Africa Province.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1524
Paschase Broet, one of the first ten companions of Ignatius, is ordained a priest long before he met St. Ignatius.
1538
Diego Hozes, S.J. dies. The first Jesuit to die. (even if the Society was not yet officially approved). He was a Spanish priest who died in Padua.
1563
The First Sodality of Our Lady of Fatima Prima Primaria was started at the Roman College by a young Belgian Jesuit, Jean Leunis.
1563
The first Sodality of Our Lady, Prima Primaria, was begun in the Roman College by a young Belgian Jesuit named John Leunis (Leonius).
1586
St. Margaret Clitheroe dies on this day, pressed to death. New RM. She protected some Jesuit Fathers.
1634
Andrew White, S.J. arrives in Maryland. Mass said on St. Clement Isle, River Potomac, not far from St. Inigo's. This is the beginning of Catholicism in English speaking America).
1847
Virgil Barber, S.J. dies. A convert to Catholicism, his wife and five children become religious, one of them a Jesuit.
1904
Francis Xavier is chosen by Pius X as the patron of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith.
1920
Instruction/Letter of Father General Ledochowski on the use of the telephone. No general permission is given to scholastics to use the phone, and no phones in private rooms.
1962
Fr. Felice Cappello dies, known as "the Confessor of Rome", for hearing confessions at St. Ignatius Church.
1968
Paul VI approve new statutes for Sodalities, now CLC.
1980
Paul Dent, one of the first Missouri Province Jesuits who went to India in the 1920's, dies.
