(From the Common of Pastors Readings from the Common of Saints: Common of Pastors: Readings outside Easter Time I. Isa 6:1, 6-8; Ps 40(39):2+4ab, 7-8a, 8b-9, 10+12; Luke 4:16a-22. II. Eph 4:1-7, 11-13; Ps 67(66):2-3, 5, 7-8; John 17:20-26. III. 1 Pet 5:1-4; Ps 23(22):1-3, 4, 5, 6; John 10:11-16. Common of Pastors: Readings during Easter Time I. Acts 20:28-38; Ps 145(144):8-9, 10-11, 12-13ab; John 14:23-29.)
Anniversary:
137th anniversary of the death of F. Anthony Puff (78) d. 1939 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
123rd anniversary of the death of P. Richard Corish (65) d. 1953 at Leeds, England.
Anniversary:
86th anniversary of the death of P. John Chula (58) d. 1990 at Lusaka, Zambia.
Anniversary:
71st anniversary of the death of P. Norman MacDonald (79) d. 2005 at Lusaka, Zambia.
Anniversary:
70th anniversary of the death of P. George Orr (87) d. 2006 at Pontypool, Cardiff, Wales.
Anniversary:
64th anniversary of the death of P. Patrick Kelly (HIB) (92) d. 2012 at Dublin, Ireland.
Anniversary:
62nd anniversary of the death of P. José Belarmino de Araújo (72) d. 2014 at Lisbon, Portugal.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
Saint José María Rubio, Priest (Optional Memorial)
José María Rubio (1864-1929) was born in Dalias, Spain. He joined the Society as a diocesan priest in 1906, at the age of forty-two. In 1911, he was appointed to the Professed House in Madrid, where he remained for the rest of his life. Rubio was fully engaged in preaching, spiritual direction and hearing confessions. He chose to work primarily among the poor. He built up teams of Catholic laity, founded on a strong Eucharistic spirituality, who collaborated in his numerous initiatives in the city’s slums and suburbs. He is acclaimed as the “Apostle of Madrid” and “Father of the Poor”.
1650
The archbishop of Sens in France, a friend of the Jansenists, ordered prayers in his diocese for the conversion of the Jesuits.
1881
The Society was expelled from the Republic of Nicaragua.
1902
Carlos Sommervogel, S.J. dies Historian of the Society of Jesus, bibliographer.
1938
Franco invites the Jesuits to return to Spain. They had been banned in 1932.
1971
The announcement of the opening of the Center of Concern in Washington, DC.
2003
St. Joseph Mary Rubio, S.J. Parish priest in Madrid. Optional Memorial. He died on May 2, 1929. On this day, in 2003 he was canonized.
