Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For formation in discernment (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that we might again learn how to discern, to know how to choose paths of life and reject everything that leads us away from Christ and the Gospel."
28 Monday
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Monday of the seventeenth week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle I
[401] Exod 32:15-24, 30-34;Ps 106:19-20, 21-22, 23; Matt 13:31-35.
Hours of the day.
Archdioceses of Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg, South Africa [SACBC]
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St Victor I, Pope and Martyr
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Common of Martyrs
[RM]
Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture Sts. Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, Nicholas, deacons (cf. Acts 6:3-5) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:
24th anniversary of the death of F. Emmanuel Tirivanhu (60) d. 2001 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
Birthday:
84th birthday of P. Paul EDWARDS (born this day in 1941).
Birthday:
20th birthday of NS. Wiseborn KANYAMBUJO (born this day in 2005).
Jubilee:
Crystal Jubilee of P. Andrew SIMPASA who celebrates 15 years in the Society today.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1568
In a letter to Fr. Christopher Rodriguez, St. Teresa speaking of the Society says: "Homines Societatis Jesus sunt mei patres, quibus post Deum debet anima mea bonum omne si quid habet." (The men of the Society of Jesus are my fathers, to whom, after God, my soul owes all its good, if it has any.)
1844
Gerard Manley Hopkins is born.
1868
Theodor Wulf, S.J. is born. physics, invented electrometers for classroom use. He was also provincial.
1937
Fr. William Banks Rogers died. During his eight years as president of Saint Louis University, he arranged for the purchase of a college of medicine which became the University’s medical school. He is called the university’s "Second Founder."
