Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For working conditions (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that through work, each person might find fulfilment, families might be sustained in dignity, and that society might be humanized."
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Sixth Sunday of Easter
2nd World Children's Day (est. 2024)
Mass of the day, Gloria, Creed, Preface of Easter I - V. Where Ascension is celebrated on the Seventh Sunday of Easter, today's second reading & gospel may be from Seventh Sunday of Easter if desired.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 2 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:
10th anniversary of the death of P. John Doyle (84) d. 2015 at Pickering, ON, Canada.
Birthday:
37th birthday of P. Frank Fanie TARUWONA (born this day in 1988).
Birthday:
57th birthday of P. Nathanael MITI (born this day in 1968).
Birthday:
33rd birthday of S. Paul KANDA (born this day in 1992).
Jubilee:
Emerald Jubilee of P. Konrad LANDSBERG who celebrates 55 years of Priesthood today.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1537
St. Francis Borgia was converted from the vanities of the world by the sight of Empress Isabella’s corpse.
1590
In Japan died Father Gaspar Coelho, a renowed missioner, who with only one companion, converted 35,000 persons and sixty Bonzes to the Church.
1621
St. John Berchmans offered to God l00 acts of self-humiliation in honor of St. Aloysius.
1773
The scholastics at Bologna, Italy, pressed immediately before the suppression by Cardinal Malvezzi to take off their religious habit and accept dispensation from their vows, refused to listen to him.
1773
The Scholastics at Bologna, pressed by Cardinal Malvezzi to take off their Religious habit and accept dispensation from their vows, refused to listen to him.
1802
The death of John Carroll, member of the Society before the Suppression, founder of Georgetown University and as first bishop of Baltimore, the founder of the U.S. hierarchy.
1879
St. Patrick's Cathedral in NYC is consecrated. The property had been purchased by Anton Kohlmann, S.J.
1989
Philip Carey, S.J. dies Labor priest, mediator, of the Labor Relations Institute at Xavier Parish in New York City.
