Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For respect for human life. (Read Reflection) "Let us pray for the respect and protection of human life in all its stages, recognizing it as a gift from God."
Full Moon
30 Thursday
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Thursday of the seventeenth week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle II
[404] Jer 18:1-6;Ps 146:1b-2, 3-4, 5-6ab; Matt 13:47-53.
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:
51st birthday of P. Ignatius A. TAMBUDZAI (born this day in 1975).
Jubilee:
Tin Jubilee of P. Anold MOYO who celebrates 10 years of Priesthood 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.
