Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For political leaders (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that political leaders be at the service of their own people, working for integral human development and the common good, taking caring of those who have lost their jobs and giving priority to the poor."
7 Wednesday
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Wednesday of the eighteenth week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle II
[409] Jer 31:1-7;Jer 31:10, 11-12ab, 13; Matt 15:21-28.
Hours of the day.
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St Cajetan, priest Common of Pastors, or Common of Holy Men and Women: For Religious Readings from the Common of Saints: [616] Sir 2:7-13 (#737.12); Ps 112:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, 9 (#739.7); Luke 12:32-34 (#742.21).
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St Sixtus II, pope and martyr, and companions, martyrs Common of Martyrs Readings from the Common of Saints: [615] Wis 3:1-9 (#713.5); Ps 126:1bc-2ab, 2cd-3, 4-5, 6 (#715.4); Matt 10:28-33 (#718.2).
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Anniversary:
80th anniversary of the death of F. Francis Bulak (48) d. 1944 at Katondwe, N. Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
18th anniversary of the death of P. John Pearson (94) d. 2006 at Middlesborough, England.
Anniversary:
11th anniversary of the death of E. Luis Ferreira da Silva (91) d. 2013 at Lifidzi, Rep. of Mozambique.
Anniversary:
9th anniversary of the death of P. Manuel JoseĚ Malvar Da Fonseca (73) d. 2015 at Braga, Portugal.
SJ NOTE:
Monthly Mass for the needs of the Church and the Society should be offered on August 7, the 210th anniversary of the restoration of the Society (1814).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1606
Father Francis Suarez' book, De Censuris, with passages interpolated by some enemy of the Society, was put on the Index.
1635
Friedrich von Spee, S.J. dies, age 44. Being asked why his hair was all white at 30, he replied that he had attended at the gallows about 100 persons accused of witchcraft, many of them children, and he knew all to be innocent. He was the first to attack and disturb the then general belief in witchcraft. Also a famed poet. Author of Cautio Criminalis.
1814
Pope Pius VII in the bula Sollicitudo Omnium Ecclesiarum approved the restoration of the Society of Jesus.
1814
The Restoration of the Society through the world was proclaimed by Pius VII in his Bull Sollicitudo omnium ecclesiarum. Eighty six aged Fathers of the Old Society were present on the occasion in the Gesu, where the Bull was read, with acclamations of joy. Restoration Day. The Inquisition and Index of forbidden books were also reconstituted.
1879
The New York Mission and the Maryland Province are joined to constitute the New York Province. On 19 August 1880 it will be re- named the Maryland/New York Province.
1879
The New York Province was established.
1962
A Letter of Fr. Janssens to all major superiors on the Study and Use of Latin.
1981
Father General Arrupe suffers a stroke upon his return from the Philippines, at the Rome airport.
