Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For families in crisis (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that broken families might discover the cure for their wounds through forgiveness, rediscovering each other’s gifts, even in their differences."
4 Tuesday
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Tuesday of the eighth week in Ordinary Time.
Mass ad lib.
Cycle I
[348] Sir 35:1-12;Ps 50:5-6, 7-8, 14+23; Mark 10:28-31.
Hours of the day.
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St Casimir Common of Holy Men and Women (Readings from the Common of Saints: [537] Phil 3:8-14 (#740.9); Ps 15:2-3ab, 3cd-4ab, 5 (#739.2); John 15:9-17 (#742.25).
Optional
Anniversary:
55th anniversary of the death of P. William Sandiford (91) d. 1970 at Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex, England.
Anniversary:
13th anniversary of the death of P. James Berry (80) d. 2012 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
The Novena of Grace begins on this day.
1777
Disgrace and dismissal from office of Carvalho (Marquis de Pombal) the Society's bitterest enemy, by Queen Mary of Portugal.
1887
Fr. General Beckx, the 22nd General dies. His term was 33 years long.
1911
Charles de Smedt, S.J. dies. He gave new life and vigor to the Bollandists. 2014. Canonization of Blessed Jose de Anchieta. Letter of Fr. General on this occasion.
