Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the cry of the Earth (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that each of us listen with our hearts to the cry of the Earth and of the victims of environmental disasters and the climate crisis, making a personal commitment to care for the world we inhabit."
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Friday of the twenty-second week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle II
[435] 1 Cor 4:1-5;Ps 37:3-4, 5-6, 27-28, 39-40; Luke 5:33-39.
Hours of the day.
[RM]
Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Onesiphoros, disciple of Paul (cf. 2 Tm. 1:16-18) [from the Roman Martyrology].
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Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Zachariah, prophet (cf. Ezr. 6:14a) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:
108th anniversary of the death of P. José da Cruz Tavares (69) d. 1916 at Pontevedra, Spain.
Anniversary:
63rd anniversary of the death of P. Patrick O'Dwyer (81) d. 1961 at Tremeirchion, N Wales.
Birthday:
30th birthday of NS. Christopher Paidamoio MURASI (born this day in 1994).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
Old Jesuit Martyrology. Thomas Izugi, Michael Nacaxin, martyrs and their companions.
1574
A. Valignano arrives in Goa, as Visitor.
1820
King Ferdinand VII suppressed the Society of Jesus in Spain.
1823
The birth in Indiana of James Chrysostom Bouchard (Watomika) the first Native American Jesuit. A member of the Delaware tribe, he was ordained in St. Louis in 1856. He became one of the Province’s best orators, prompting a book about him called the Eloquent Indian.
1946
General Congregation XXIX convened to elect a new superior general; nine days later it chose the Belgian Jesuit, John Baptist Janssens.
1946
The opening of the 29th General Congregation, with 169 electors. On September 15th, they will elect Fr. Janssens as General.
1957
General Congregation XXX, convoked by Father General John Baptist Janssens to deal with matter of major importance for the Society.
1985
George MacRae, S.J., Scripture Scholar dies. He was also Dean at Harvard Divinity School.
2008
Vincent Duminuco dies, age 74. Creator of "Characteristics of Jesuit Education." New York Province. Served at the Curia in Rome – assistant to the General for Education
