Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the cry of the Earth (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that each of us listen with our hearts to the cry of the Earth and of the victims of environmental disasters and the climate crisis, making a personal commitment to care for the world we inhabit."
28 Saturday
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Saturday of the twenty-fifth week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle II
[454] Eccl 11:9-12:8;Ps 90:3-4, 5-6, 12-13, 14+17; Luke 9:43b-45.
Hours of the day.
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St Lawrence Ruiz and his companions, martyrs Common of Martyrs Readings from the Common of Saints: [645A] 2 Mac 7:1-2, 9-14 (#713.3); Ps 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9 (#715.2); John 15:18-21 (#718.6).
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Saturday Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary
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St Wenceslaus, martyr Common of Martyrs Readings from the Common of Saints: [646] 1 Petr 3:14-17 (#716.8); Ps 126:1-2ab, 2cd-3, 4-5, 6 (#715.4); Matt 10:34-39 (#718.3).
Diamond Jubilee of P. John MLAKAR who celebrates 60 years in the Society today.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1566
On the island of Tatacuran, off the coast of Florida, Father Pedro Martinez was killed by savages the moment he set foot on land. He was the first Jesuit in USA, and the first Jesuit martyr in USA.
1566
The death of Pedro Martinez, the ï¬rst Jesuit to enter the continental United States. He was killed by natives on the island of Tatacuran, Florida.
1572
Fifteen Jesuits arrive in Mexico, including Fr. Sanchez, as Provincial, to establish the Mexican Province. They soon open a college.
1972
Erich Przywara dies. Writer, theologian.
1978
Ben Masse, S.J. dies Assistant Editor of America, 1941-71.
2009
The death of Paul Besanceny, S.J., age. 85. He served as Provincial of Detroit nand the Eastern Africa Province, and then served in Sudan.
