Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the Synod (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray for the Church, that she may adopt listening and dialogue as a style of life at every level, allowing herself to be guided by the Holy Spirit towards the world’s peripheries."
26 Thursday
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Thursday of the twenty-ninth week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle I
[476] Rom 6:19-23;Ps 1:1-2, 3, 4+6; Luke 12:49-53.
Princess Juana, the daughter of Charles V, is admitted to the Society in an exceptional way and with the obligation of complete secrecy. She takes vows. She would die as a Jesuit scholastic with her vows.
1556
In Rome the death of Fr. Andrew Frusius. He translated the Spiritual Exercises into Latin, and this was the first book printed by the Society.
1574
A mentally disturbed Jesuit, Gerhard Pesch, murders three Jesuits at the Jesuit College in Cologne. The Rector, minister and one regent.
1644
In Maryland Father Andrew White was seized by some English invaders, carried off prisoner to London, imprisoned, then sentenced to banishment.
1987
Giuseppe Moscati a Neapolitan physician and university professor, friend of Jesuits, who died in 1917, is canonized by Pope John Paul II.
