Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For vocations to the priesthood and religious life (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that the ecclesial community might welcome the desires and doubts of those young people who feel a call to serve Christâs mission in the priesthood and religious life."
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Friday of the fourth week in Ordinary Time.
Mass ad lib.
Cycle I
[327] Heb 13:1-8;Ps 27:1, 3, 5, 8b-9abc; Mark 6:14-29.
Hours of the day.
Anniversary:
130th anniversary of the death of F. Clement Wigger (36) d. 1895 at Ricico, Zumbo, Province of Mozambique.
Anniversary:
53rd anniversary of the death of P. Francis Keating (72) d. 1972 at Westbourne, Dorset, England.
Anniversary:
26th anniversary of the death of P. Kurt Stefan Czekala (87) d. 1999 at Berlin, Germany.
Anniversary:
3rd anniversary of the death of F. Theodore C. Bender (UEA) (87) d. 2022 at Weston, MA, USA.
Anniversary:
2nd anniversary of the death of P. JoseĚ Augusto Alves de Sousa (POR) (89) d. 2023 at Lisbon, Portugal.
Birthday:
56th birthday of P. Bruce BOTHA (born this day in 1969).
Birthday:
31st birthday of S. Anold Tarisai ZINDONDA (born this day in 1994).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1549
The first Jesuit martyr, Antonio Criminali, Servant of God, dies in India. He is the Protomartyr of the Society of Jesus.
1581
The Fourth General Congregation opens. It will elect Claudio Acquaviva. 1593. James Sales and Br. William Saultmouche die at the hands of the Huguenots.
1760
At Civita Vecchia, the landing of twenty Fathers and 190 scholastics from Portugal, victims of Pombalâs persecution.
1878
At Chicago, the death of Fr. Ferdinard Coosemans, who had a deep devotion to the blessed Sacrament and the Sacred Heart.
2014
Daniel Harrington dies. Biblical Scholar, New Testament Abstracts.
