Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the cry of the Earth (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that each of us listen with our hearts to the cry of the Earth and of the victims of environmental disasters and the climate crisis, making a personal commitment to care for the world we inhabit."
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Wednesday of the twenty-second week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle II
[433] 1 Cor 3:1-9;Ps 33:12-13, 14-15, 20-21; Luke 4:38-44.
Hours of the day.
[RM]
Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Joseph, son of Jacob (cf. Gn. 30:22–24, 37; 39–50) [from the Roman Martyrology].
[RM]
Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Moses, prophet and law giver (cf. Ex. 3:10) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:
51st anniversary of the death of P. John Diamond (69) d. 1973 at London, England.
Anniversary:
21st anniversary of the death of P. Desmond O'Loghlen (85) d. 2003 at Lusaka, Zambia.
Anniversary:
18th anniversary of the death of P. Sean O'Connor (AOR) (86) d. 2006 at Nairobi, Kenya.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1549
Peter Canisius makes his final profession in Rome. 1606. Brief of Pope Paul V confirms our Institute.
1845
Pierre Chazelle dies. Pioneer leader and first Superior of the restored Society in French Canada and the USA.
1973
James Brodrick dies, in London, of the Irish Province, historian of the Society, biographer of Ignatius, Bellarmine, and Canisius.
1991
Henri Cardinal de Lubac, S.J. dies, age 95. A theologian, once silenced, then vindicated. Surnaturel. He was created a cardinal in 1983.
