[151] Mal 1:14b-2:2b, 8-10; Ps 131:1, 2, 3; 1 Thess 2:7b-9, 13; Matt 23:1-12.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 3 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:
40th anniversary of the death of F. Patrick Sherry (63) d. 1983 at Monze, Zambia.
Anniversary:
14th anniversary of the death of F. José Ferreira Ormonde (86) d. 2009 at Soutelo, Portugal.
Anniversary:
7th anniversary of the death of P. Raymond Armstrong (89) d. 2016 at Preston, Lancs, England.
Anniversary:
5th anniversary of the death of P. Francis Hull (BRI) (93) d. 2018 at Preston, Lancs, England.
Anniversary:
1st anniversary of the death of P. Francesco Spartaco Ciccotti (98) d. 2022 at San Paolo, Brazil.
Death:
Death of P. George Croft (SAP) (98) d. 2023 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
All Saints and Blesseds of the Society of Jesus. Feast. Formerly, the Feast of the Holy Relics.
ALL SAINTS OF THE SOCIETY OF JESUS (Feast)
Today we remember all our companions who are now face to face with their Lord in unending happiness. We call to mind the power of God shining through human weakness and the reward given to those who, in the words of the Spiritual Exercises, “faithfully labour under the banner of Christ’s cross and have entered with him into glory”. In 2014, when the Society of Jesus celebrated the second centenary of its restoration, it had fifty-six saints (including four non-Jesuit collaborators) and 148 Blessed (including one candidate).
1605
Guy Fawkes Day. The Gunpowder Plot is revealed to the Government as a Popish plot, and the Jesuits allegedly involved.
1615
Opening of the Seventh General Congregation. Among the decrees were the following: that the Society is not bound to contribute to the support of those dismissed; that the biretta is not to be allowed to lay brothers.
1643
Isaac Jogues sails from Manhattan for Europe.
1660
In Persia died Father Alexander de Rhodes, the first missionary to penetrate into the Kingdoms of Tonkin and Siam (Vietnam) in the year 1627.
1660
The death of Alexander de Rhodes, Jesuit missionary who arrived in what is now Vietnam in 1625.
1796
In Russia, the death of Empress Catherine the Great, protectress of the Society. She reigned for 34 years.
1873
At Rome the furniture of the Gesu Professed House was sold by auction. The only bidders were Jews from the Ghetto.
1877
Regis University, then known as Las Vegas College, was established in Las Vegas, New Mexico.
