[125] Deut 4:1-2, 6-8; Ps 15:2-3a, 3b-4a, 4b-5; Jas 1:17-18, 21b-22, 27; Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 2 of the Psalter.
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Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Phoebe, deaconess (cf. Rom. 16:1-2) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:
125th anniversary of the death of P. Francis Jones (82) d. 1965 at Edinburgh, Scotland.
Birthday:
117th birthday of P. Francis Gibson MUNYORO (born this day in 1973).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
Old Jesuit Martyrology. Anthony Ixida and Companions.
1759
The expulsion of Jesuits from Portugal. They are deported to the papal states.
1860
In Maryland the first beginnings of a novitiate for North America. In l863 the house was closed on account of the war, and later on reopened at Fordham.
1935
Zachaeus Maher, S.J. is appointed American Assistant and Admonitor to the General.
1965
Ferdinand C. Wheeler, S.J. dies. He was Minister and Rector at Woodstock College.
1969
Harold Gardiner, S.J. Literary critic, America magazine.
1970
Vincent Lombardi dies. One of the Fordham Seven Blocks of Granite. Coach of the Green Bay Packers. Jesuit educated.
1983
General Congregation 33 accepts the resignation of Pedro Arrupe.
1994
Raymond Walter, S.J., dies. Age 79. 1967-72 Treasurer of Society of Jesus, 1972-80 Assistant to General Treasurer.
