Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the pastoral care of the sick (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick grant the Lord’s strength to those who receive it and to their loved ones, and that it may become for everyone an ever more visible sign of compassion and hope."
4 Thursday
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Thursday of the thirteenth week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle II
[380] Amos 7:10-17;Ps 19:8, 9, 10, 11; Matt 9:1-8.
Hours of the day.
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St Elizabeth of Portugal Common of Holy Men and Women: For Those Who Work for the Underprivileged Readings from the Common of Saints: [594] 1 John 3:14-18 (#740.16); Ps 112:1-2, 3-4, 5-6,7-8, 9 (#739,7); Matt 25:31-46 or 25:31-40 (#742.13).
To celebrate the election of Fr. James Lainez as general, a "brilliant academical exhibition" was given in the Pantheon in Rome by the scholastics.
1648
Fr. Anthony Daniel is shot with arrows and cast into flames in Canada by the Iroquois. The Huron village is taken.
1751
General Congregation XVII elected 69-year-old Ignacio Visconti to be superior general.
1869
The Buffalo Mission (German speaking)is established with 13 fathers and 8 brothers. They take responsibility for St. Michael and St. Anne parishes in Buffalo.
1872
Kaiser Wilhelm I signs the so called "Jesuit law." Jesuits are"enemies of the Reich". 550 are expelled.
1886
F.X. Gautralet, S.J. dies . He founded the Apostleship of Prayer in 1844. 2003. The death of Bertrand deMargerie, S.J. French theologian and spiritual writer.
