Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the abolition of the death penalty (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "We pray that the death penalty, which attacks the dignity of the human person, may be legally abolished in every country."
5 Monday
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Monday of the twenty-third week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle II
[437] 1 Cor 5:1-8;Ps 5:5-6, 7, 12; Luke 6:6-11.
Hours of the day.
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St Teresa of Calcutta, virgin Readings from the Common of Saints:
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Anniversary:
62nd anniversary of the death of P. Peter Morris (45) d. 1960 at Grahamstown, RSA.
Anniversary:
9th anniversary of the death of F. Albano Marques Agulha (99) d. 2013 at Braga, Portugal.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1722
King Philip V authorized the Society to found a college in the city of Santafé de Antioquia (Colombia); it was the first college founded in that province.
1758
A silly decree was issued by the French Parliament condemning Father Busembaum's Medulla Theologiae Moralis.
1870
Three Universities are founded: St. John's in NY, Loyola, Chicago, and Canisius in Buffalo.
1888
Las Vegas College and Sacred Heart College were combined and moved to Main Hall in Denver. Classes began with 75 students.
1922
Terence J. Shealy, S.J. dies. A pioneer in the Retreat movement, and at the Fordham School of Social Service.
1930
John G. Hagen dies, age 83 in Rome. He was Director of the Vatican Observatory for 24 years, and also worked at the Georgetown Observatory.
2008
Robert Giroux dies, age 94. Giant of the publishing, editing world. Eventually got his diploma from Regis High School.
