Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: That the world might grow in compassion (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that each one of us might find consolation in a personal relationship with Jesus, and from his Heart, learn to have compassion on the world."
5 Thursday
red
St Boniface, bishop and martyr
Memorial
Mass of the memorial; preface of Ascension I - II or Easter I - V or of the saint.
Cycle I
[300] Acts 22:30; 23:6-11;Ps 16:1-2a+5, 7-8, 9-10, 11; John 17:20-26.
Hours of the memorial
Anniversary:
118th anniversary of the death of P. John Vollers (46) d. 1907 at Canaries, Spain.
Anniversary:
41st anniversary of the death of P. Michael Moloney (71) d. 1984 at Dublin, Ireland.
Birthday:
32nd birthday of S. BenĂcio Arlindo CHICOMO (born this day in 1993).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1564
At Lima died Francis Lopez, who had resigned the high office of Visitor General of the Kingdom of Peru to become a lay Brother in the Society.
1564
Pius IV, hearing that his nephew St. Charles Borromeo felt drawn to the Society, forbad Lainez and Ribadenairs to enter the Apostolic Palace.
1960
The Vatican Secretariat for Christian Unity is established. Cardinal Bea is the first President, from 1960 to his death in 1968.
1986
John Mahoney is named professor of moral theology in King’s College, the University of London, the first Catholic priest to hold that chair.
