Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For a Church open to everyone (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "We pray for the Church; ever faithful to, and courageous in preaching the Gospel, may the Church be a community of solidarity, fraternity and welcome, always living in an atmosphere of synodality."
5 Wednesday
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Wednesday of the twenty-seventh week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle II
[463] Gal 2:1-2, 7-14;Ps 117:1bc, 2; Luke 11:1-4.
Hours of the day.
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St Faustina Kowalska, virgin
[651a] Eph 3:14-19; Ps 103(102):1-2. 3-4. 8-9. 13-14. 17-18a.r.1; Matt 11:25-30. Common of Virgins, or Common of Holy Men and Women: For Religious Readings from the Common of Saints: [651B] Eph 3:14-19 -740.7; Ps 103:1bc-2, 3-4, 8-9, 13-14, 17-18a (#739.6); Matt 11:25-30 (#742.4).
Optional
Anniversary:
86th anniversary of the death of P. James Nasser (78) d. 1936 at Petworth, W. Sussex, England.
Anniversary:
61st anniversary of the death of P. Christopher Devlin (54) d. 1961 at Pewsey, Wiltshire, England.
Anniversary:
35th anniversary of the death of P. John Byrne (56) d. 1987 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
Anniversary:
23rd anniversary of the death of P. Georg Muschalek (88) d. 1999 at Berlin, Germany.
Birthday:
57th birthday of P. Lastone R. LUPUPA (born this day in 1965).
Birthday:
51st birthday of P. Tiyowoyechi SILUNGWE (born this day in 1971).
Birthday:
24th birthday of S. Dismas CHISANGA (born this day in 1998).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1582
The Gregorian Calendar went into effect. Christopher Clavius SJ helped create this modification that suppressed the days between October 5 and 15 in order to bring the calendar into line with astronomical facts. Countries which did not like the pope liked his calendar even less, so it was not until the 20th century that all countries adopted it as their civil calendar.
1629
At Antwerp dies Fr. Herbert Rosweyde, S.J. who was in many ways the founder and the first Bollandist.
1713
Denis Diderot is born. Philosopher and encyclopaedist. He attended the Jesuit school at Langres. His writings cover a wide field of interests.
1759
At Coimbra an officer named Castro came with the king's message to the Novitiate. The superior was conducted to prison, where he lay 18 years. Pathetic scenes followed, the Scholastics and novices, 145 in number, being left without a Superior.
1964
John Baptist Janssens dies 27th Superior General of the Society.
1981
In a letter to Father General Arrupe, Pope John Paul II appoints Paolo Dezza as his personal delegate in the Society of Jesus. Provincials are notified of this move. Fr. Pittau is his coadjutor.
1986
Archbishop John McEleney dies. Of the New England Province, he was bishop in Jamaica.
1986
Pope John Paul II visits the tomb of Claude la Colombiere at Paray-le- Monial and exhorts all to devotion to the Sacred Heart.
2004
Fred Moriarty, S.J. dies, age 89. Scripture Professor at Weston. "His door was always open."
2006
Robert Mitchell, S.J. dies, age 80. Ex Provincial of NY and President of several Colleges.
