| 28 Monday | |
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| white | The Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church | Memorial |
| Mass of the Memorial (Votive Mass
#10B) | |
| These readings are proper to the
memorial.
cf. [572A] Gen 3: 9-15, 20 or Acts 1: 12-14; Ps 86:
1-2, 3 & 5, 5-7; Jn 19: 25-34 | |
| Hours of the memorial (From Votive Masses: 10. Blessed Virgin Mary, B. Our Lady, Mother of the Church.) |
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| | Seasonal weekday readings: |
| | [347] Sir 17:20-24; Ps 32:1-2, 5, 6, 7; Mark 10:17-27. |
| Anniversary: | 176th anniversary of the death of P. Kenelm Digby-Beste (39) d. 1915 at Bulawayo, BSA Co..  |
| Anniversary: | 101st anniversary of the death of P. Maximilian Prokoph (80) d. 1990 at Johannesburg, RSA. |
| Anniversary: | 69th anniversary of the death of P. Andrews Thekkekara (MDU) (90) d. 2022 at Harare, Zimbabwe. |
| Birthday: | 119th birthday of P. Kapyunga Boyd Christopher NYIRENDA (born this day in 1972). |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 1537 | Francis Borgia converted from the vanities of the world by the sight of Empress Isabella’s corpse. |
| 1547 | Letter of St. Ignatius on zeal and religious perfection. |
| 1600 | Father Matthew Ricci, undismayed by the failure of his first visit to Peking, set out again from Nanking with many rich presents for the Emperor, of which he was robbed on the way. |
| 1634 | Ven. Father Thomas Holland, martyr, took the vows of a Spiritual Coadjutor. He is said to have heroically swallowed a spider that fell into the chalice during Mass. He is now a saint. |
| 1648 | At Murcia in Spain died Fr. Andre Salvatierra, famous mission in California. On several occasions he won a hearing for the Gospel by first playing on the lute for the native peoples. |
| 1881 | Cardinal Bea, is born. |
| 1962 | The death of Bernard Hubbard, S.J., in Santa Clara, California. He is the author of the book Mush, You Malemutes! and articles in the Saturday Evening Post on the Alaska mission. "The Glacier Priest" – for climbing the Austrian Alps! |
| 1981 | The death of Mary Lou Williams, jazz pianist. Convert to Catholicism, she wrote jazz Masses. Jesuits assisted her and one acted as her musical agent. |
| 1987 | Hugh Costigan, S.J. dies. Missionary to Micronesia. |
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