Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: That everyone might have food. (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that everyone, from large producers to small consumers, be committed to avoid wasting food, and to ensure that everyone has access to quality food."
Last Quarter
7 Thursday
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Thursday in the Fifth Week of Easter
Mass of the day. Preface of Easter I - V "...in this time."
Cycle II
[288] Acts 15:7-21;Ps 96:1-2a, 2b-3, 10; John 15:9-11.
Hours of the day.
Anniversary:
135th anniversary of the death of F. Aloysius van den Abele (28) d. 1891 at Inhambane, Portuguese Eastern Africa.
Anniversary:
35th anniversary of the death of P. Waclaw Kolodziejczyk (82) d. 1991 at Penley, Wales.
Birthday:
56th birthday of P. VirgÃlio 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.
