Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the care of water. (Read Reflection) "Let us pray for a just and sustainable management of water, a vital resource, so that everyone may have equal access to it."
Waning Gibbous
28 Monday
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Monday of the twenty-sixth week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle II
[455] Job 1:6-22;Ps 17:1bcd, 2-3, 6-7; Luke 9:46-50.
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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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).
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Anniversary:
129th anniversary of the death of P. Emílio André (38) d. 1897 at Quelimane, Province of Mozambique.
Anniversary:
52nd anniversary of the death of P. Samuel Kennan (75) d. 1974 at St Beuno's, Tremeirchion, N Wales.
Anniversary:
19th anniversary of the death of C. Adam Kozlowiecki (96) d. 2007 at Lusaka, Zambia.
Birthday:
41st birthday of D. Nelson José FONSECA BONÊS (born this day in 1985).
Jubilee:
Pearl Jubilee of P. Peter KNOX who celebrates 30 years of Priesthood 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 first 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.
