[152] Deut 6:2-6; Ps 18:2-3a, 3b-4, 47+51; Heb 7:23-28; Mark 12:28b-34.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 3 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:
109th anniversary of the death of P. Ernesto Domingues (77) d. 1987 at Lisbon, Portugal.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
Charles Borromeo, bishop, Memorial. He died on this day in 1584 in Milan in the arms of his Jesuit confessor, Fr. Adorno Benfacta dies 1584. He said his second Mass in the rooms of St. Ignatius. He gave St. Aloysius his first communion.
1768
On the feast of St. Charles, patron of Charles III, King of Spain, the people of Madrid asked for the recall of the Jesuits who had been banished from Spain 19 months earlier. Irritated by this demand, the King drove the Archbishop of Toledo and his Vicar General into exile as instigators of the movement.
1920
Joseph Fitzmyer, S.J. is born. Scripture scholar.
1927
Transfer of the Curia to its new quarters at Borgo Santo Spirito 5.
1936
The death in Tortosa, Spain, of Servants of God Francis AudÃ, John Rovira and Joseph Llatje, martyrs of the Spanish Civil War.
1985
The death of Morton Hill, S.J. He was the founder of Morality in Media. President Reagan sends a sympathy note and tribute to him for his funeral.
1988
In Lithuania, over 300 people welcome Fr. Sigitas Tamkevicius on his release after five years in prison.
2009
The death of Thomas O’Malley, S.J. He had been Provincial of New Orleans, an historian, author of "The Conversational Word of God."
