Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the formation of men and women religious, and seminarians (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that men and women religious, and seminarians, grow in their own vocational journey through human, pastoral, spiritual and community formation, that leads them to be credible witnesses of the Gospel."
27 Monday
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Monday of the eighth week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle II
[347] 1 Pet 1:3-9;Ps 111:1-2, 5-6, 9+10c; Mark 10:17-27.
Hours of the day.
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St Augustine of Canterbury, bishop Common of Pastors: For Missionaries Readings from the Common of Saints: [571] 1 Thess 2:2b-8 (#722.10); Ps 96:1-2a, 2b-3, 7-8a, 10 (#721.5); Matt 9:35-38 (#724.1).
Optional
Anniversary:
130th anniversary of the death of P. Adolph Bontemps (36) d. 1894 at Swartfontein, RSA.
Anniversary:
53rd anniversary of the death of P. James Wallace (55) d. 1971 at Inyanga, Republic of Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
42nd anniversary of the death of P. Wiliam Butler (70) d. 1982 at Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, England.
Anniversary:
23rd anniversary of the death of P. Michael Ross (85) d. 2001 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1547
Pope Paul III acceded to the request that the Society of Jesus not have women as members nor have a parallel women’s order.
1702
Fr. Dominique Bouhours, literary critic and author of lives of St. Ignatius and St. Francis Xavier, died at Paris. The poet John Dryden translated the latter into English after his conversion.
Francis LeBuffe, S.J. dies. Author, Spiritual writer, lawyer, Sodalist, philosopher, anthropologist. From the New York Province, he died on Ascension Thursday.
1971
Bernard Leeming, S.J. dies. Theologian and ecumenist, he attended Xavier High School in New York.
1974
Herbert Musurillo, S.J. dies Classicist, patristic scholar.
