Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the elderly (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "We pray for the elderly, who represent the roots and memory of a people; may their experience and wisdom help young people to look towards the future with hope and responsibility."
5 Tuesday
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Tuesday of the fourteenth week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle II
[384] Hos 8:4-7, 11-13;Ps 115:3-4, 5-6, 7ab-8, 9-10; Matt 9:32-38.
Hours of the day.
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St Anthony Zaccaria, priest Common of Pastors, or Common of Holy Men and Women: For Teachers or For Religious Readings from the Common of Saints: [595] 2 Tim 1:13-14; 2:1-3 (#722.11); Ps 1:1-2, 3, 4+6 (#739.1); Mark 10:13-16 (#742.16).
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Birthday:
29th birthday of S. João David TIVANE (born this day in 1993).
Jubilee:
Crystal Jubilee of P. Mark NGWENYA who celebrates 15 years in the Society today.
Jubilee:
Crystal Jubilee of P. Nelson NYAMAYARO who celebrates 15 years in the Society today.
Jubilee:
Crystal Jubilee of P. Inos CHIMIRE who celebrates 15 years in the Society today.
Jubilee:
Crystal Jubilee of P. Mwamba D. MUTALE who celebrates 15 years in the Society today.
Jubilee:
Crystal Jubilee of F. Arnold MURWIRA who celebrates 15 years in the Society today.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1592
The arrest by Topcliffe of Robert Southwell at Uxendam Manor. He was tortured and then transferred to the Tower, where he remained for two and a half years, then moved to Newgate.
1682
General Congregation XII elected Charles de Noyelle Superior General of the Society of Jesus.
1872
In Germany, Bismarck’s law expelling the Society was signed by the Emperor William.
1956
Jules Lebreton, S.J. dies Life and Teaching of Jesus Christ. Historian, and theologian, founder of Recherches de Science Religieuse.
