[151] Mal 1:14b-2:2b, 8-10; Ps 131:1, 2, 3; 1 Thess 2:7b-9, 13; Matt 23:1-12.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 3 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:
145th anniversary of the death of P. Victor Nicot (76) d. 1935 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
138th anniversary of the death of F. Stephen Borecki (54) d. 1942 at Tehran, Iran.
Anniversary:
91st anniversary of the death of F. Bernard Gately (65) d. 1989 at Blackpool, England.
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NOTE:
(Pre-2014) Monthly Mass for deceased Jesuits should be offered on November 3 (or 4).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
Blessed Rupert Mayer, Priest (Optional Memorial)
Rupert Mayer (1876-1945) was born in Stuttgart, Germany, ordained a diocesan priest in 1899, and a year later entered the novitiate of the Society of Jesus in Austria. In 1912 he was assigned to take care of immigrants in Munich. He formed a network of clergy and laity to cooperate in serving the migrants throughout the city, providing them food, clothing, shelter and jobs. He fearlessly opposed the rise of Communism, National Socialism, and Hitler in particular. After the war he returned to his parish in Munich, where he suffered a brain haemorrhage and died in November 1945.
1593
The 5th General Congregation was the first where there was no election of a new General. It was convoked to solve problems between Pope Sixtus V, King Philip II of Spain, and Father General Claudio Aquaviva. The Pope died before making any change in the Society, and the following Pope, Gregory XIV, confirmed the Society’s institute as it stood. GC 5 finished on 18th January 1594.
1614
The vessel which was bringing the right arm of Xavier to Rome miraculously escaped capture by Dutch pirates. The arm had been severed from the body at Goa by Father Acquaviva's order.
1939
Herbert Thurston, S.J. dies. Writer, author on saints, on possessions, religious phenomena , spiritualists. Member of the English Province.
