Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For formation in discernment (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that we might again learn how to discern, to know how to choose paths of life and reject everything that leads us away from Christ and the Gospel."
30 Wednesday
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Wednesday of the seventeenth week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle I
[403] Exod 34:29-35;Ps 99:5, 6, 7, 9; Matt 13:44-46.
Hours of the day.
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St Peter Chrysologus, bishop and doctor of the Church Common of Pastors, or Common of Doctors of the Church Readings from the Common of Saints: [608] Eph 3:8-12 (#728.4); Ps 119:9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 (#727.3); Luke 6:43-45 (#730.6).
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Archdioceses of Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg, South Africa [SACBC]
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St Justin De Jacobis, Bishop
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Common of Pastors
Birthday:
50th birthday of P. Ignatius A. TAMBUDZAI (born this day in 1975).
Birthday:
87th birthday of P. Klaus CIESZYŃSKI (born this day in 1938).
Jubilee:
Blue Sapphire Jubilee of P. David Ferreira da SILVA who celebrates 65 years of Priesthood today.
Jubilee:
Blue Sapphire Jubilee of P. John KIEŁBASA who celebrates 65 years in the Society today.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1556
As he lay near to death, Ignatius asked Juan de Polanco to go and obtain for him the pope’s blessings and indulgence.
1556
Ignatius asked Father Polanco to go and obtain for him the Pope's blessing and Indulgence. He delayed, and thus never never got it in time.
1784
Denis Diderot dies Jesuit educated encyclopedist, promoter of the Enlightenment
1890
Emile Mersch, S.J. B wrote on the Mystical Body of Christ.
1916
A Jersey City munitions explosion at a train depot results in stained glass broken at St. Peter’s Church and College.
1976
Edward Rooney, S.J. dies President of the Jesuit Secondary Education Association from 1937-66.
