Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: That everyone might have food. (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that everyone, from large producers to small consumers, be committed to avoid wasting food, and to ensure that everyone has access to quality food."
Last Quarter
29 Friday
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Friday of the eighth week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle II
[351] 1 Pet 4:7-13;Ps 96:10, 11-12, 13; Mark 11:11-26.
Hours of the day.
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St Paul VI, pope Common of Pastors: For a Pope Readings from the Common of Saints: [571A] 1 Cor 9:16-19, 22-23 (#722.4); Ps 96:1-2a, 2b-3, 7-8a, 10 (#721.5); Matt 16:13-19 (#724.2).
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Archdioceses of Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg, South Africa [SACBC]
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Bl Joseph Gerard, Priest
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Common of Pastors
Anniversary:
127th anniversary of the death of F. Peter Paravicini (64) d. 1899 at Itu, Brazil.
Anniversary:
17th anniversary of the death of P. Gerald McCabe (76) d. 2009 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
Birthday:
44th birthday of P. Shepherd MUHAMBA (born this day in 1982).
St. Ursula Ledochowska, Foundress of missionary sisters, sister of Jesuit General and Blessed Teresa Ledochowska. Congregation of the Ursulines of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus.
1566
Father Pedro Martinez and two companions set sail for Florida, a region occupied at the time by barbarous tribes. (FB)
1760
The bankrupt creditors of Fr. Antoine Lavalette, superior of the Martinique mission, press the Society to repay his unauthorized trading debts, an occasion helping to lead to the banning of the Society in France.
1815
The restoration of the Society in Spain was proclaimed by royal decree.
1991
John Paul II announces that Paulo Dezza, S.J. is to become a Cardinal, as well as Jan Korec, in Slovakia. There are now seven Jesuit Cardinals, the largest number ever.
