Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For grandparents and the elderly. (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that members of the Church might always appreciate the treasure of faith and wisdom offered to us by grandparents and the elderly, and be willing to learn from their experience."
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30 Friday
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Friday of the seventeenth week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle I
[405] Lev 23:1, 4-11, 15-16, 27, 34b-37;Ps 81:3-4, 5-6, 10-11ab; Matt 13:54-58.
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:
52nd birthday of P. Ignatius A. TAMBUDZAI (born this day in 1975).
Jubilee:
Wooden Jubilee of P. Emmanuel BANDA who celebrates 5 years of Priesthood today.
Jubilee:
Wooden Jubilee of P. Ashton Isheanesu MUGOZHI who celebrates 5 years of Priesthood today.
Jubilee:
Wooden Jubilee of P. Tanaka MASHICHE who celebrates 5 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.
