Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For a Church open to everyone (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "We pray for the Church; ever faithful to, and courageous in preaching the Gospel, may the Church be a community of solidarity, fraternity and welcome, always living in an atmosphere of synodality."
27 Thursday
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Thursday of the thirtieth week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle II
[482] Eph 6:10-20;Ps 144:1b, 2, 9-10; Luke 13:31-35.
Hours of the day.
Anniversary:
141st anniversary of the death of F. Joseph Dowling (35) d. 1881 at Mopeia, Mozambique.
Anniversary:
89th anniversary of the death of F. Anthony Barbera (73) d. 1933 at Chishawasha, S. Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
77th anniversary of the death of P. Francis Tomaka (63) d. 1945 at Kasisi, N. Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
77th anniversary of the death of P. Stanislaus Siemienski (61) d. 1945 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
23rd anniversary of the death of P. Manuel Agostinho (84) d. 1999 at Cernache, Portugal.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1610
The first entrance of the Jesuit Fathers into Canada. This mission was recommended to the Society by King Henry IV of France.
1705
Tirso Gonzalez dies 13th General of the Society. He was a Promoter of the missions in China, India, Americas, and in Europe too.
1820
Several members of the Society are condemned by the 20th General Congregation of "plotting against the Institute."
1873
Departure of Fr. Beckx, General, from the Gesu, a pathetic scene.
1954
Henri Perrin, an ex-Jesuit worker priest, is killed in an unexplained motorcycle accident.
1996
Christophe Munzihirwa Mwene Ngabo SJ, archbishop of Bukavu in the Democratic Republic was murdered. He had denounced the political and economic exploitation of hundreds of thousands of Rwandan refugees who sought refuge in Kivu.
