Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: The world of finance (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that those in charge of finance will work with governments to regulate the financial sphere and protect citizens from its dangers."
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Friday in the Fifth Week of Easter
Mass of the day. Preface of Easter I - V "...in this time."
Cycle I
[289] Acts 15:22-31;Ps 57:8-9, 10+12; John 15:12-17.
Hours of the day.
Anniversary:
130th anniversary of the death of F. Aloysius van den Abele (28) d. 1891 at Inhambane, Portuguese Eastern Africa.
Anniversary:
30th anniversary of the death of P. Waclaw Kolodziejczyk (82) d. 1991 at Penley, Wales.
Anniversary:
1st anniversary of the death of P. David Gaffney (HIB) (79) d. 2020 at Dublin, Ireland.
Birthday:
51st birthday of P. VirgĂlio Arimateia DOMINGOS (born this day in 1970).
At Nagasaki, Ven. Father John Baptist de Baeza died. In the space of three years he is said to have baptized 75,000 adults at Goa, Macao, Mozambique, and in Japan.
1909
Apostolic Letter of Pius X, "Vinea Electa" erects the Pontifical Biblical Institute, to combat "false, erroneous and heretical views, especially those recently current."
1938
Proclamation of the decree by Franco that restores the Society in Spain.
1945
Fr. Ferdinand Bonsrel, S.J. dies missionary in Sri Lanka from l901-45. Educator, scientist, honored by a stamp.
1965
General Congregation 31 opens its first session. It will elect Fr. Pedro Arrupe as Superior General.
