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."
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Thursday of the twenty-seventh week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle II
[464] Gal 3:1-5;Luke 1:69-70, 71-72, 73-75; Luke 11:5-13.
Hours of the day.
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St Bruno, priest Common of Pastors, or Common of Holy Men and Women: For Religious Readings from the Common of Saints: [652] Phil 3:8-14 (#740.9); Ps 1:1-2, 3, 4+6 (#739.1); Luke 9:57-62 (#742.19).
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Anniversary:
132nd anniversary of the death of P. John Lea (52) d. 1890 at Edinburgh, Scotland.
Anniversary:
74th anniversary of the death of P. Francis Madden (76) d. 1948 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
Blessed Diego de San Vitores, priest, martyr. Memorial 1552. Matteo Ricci is born.
1566
Pedro Martinez, S.J., the first Jesuit to set foot in the USA is the first Jesuit to be martyred in the USA, in northern Florida, near what is now Jacksonville.
1773
In London, Dr. James Talbot, the Apostolic Vicar, promulgated the Letter of Suppression of the Society, and sent copies to Maryland and Pennsylvania.
1973
The death of Ignacio Iparraguirre in a fall in Rome. Expert on Ignatius and Jesuit spirituality.
1977
In France, the death of Rene Charvet, age 94, veteran missionary in China. The moving homily was delivered by the deceased through a recording he made a few months before he died.
1985
Three Jesuits are beatified, Diego de San Vitores, Jose Rubio, and Francis Garate.
1993
Cardinal Victor Razafimahatratra, S.J. dies age 72, Archbishop of Antananarivo, Madagascar.
