Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For people living on the margins (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray for those people on the margins of society in subhuman living conditions, that they may not be neglected by institutions and never be cast out."
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Thursday of the twenty-second week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle I
[434] Col 1:9-14;Ps 98:2-3ab, 3cd-4, 5-6; Luke 5:1-11.
Hours of the day.
Anniversary:
63rd anniversary of the death of P. Bruno Wolnik (77) d. 1960 at Lusaka, N. Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
54th anniversary of the death of P. James Hughes (47) d. 1969 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Jubilee:
Blue Sapphire Jubilee of P. Peter EDMONDS who celebrates 65 years in the Society today.
Jubilee:
Blue Sapphire Jubilee of P. David HAROLD-BARRY who celebrates 65 years in the Society today.
Jubilee:
Diamond Jubilee of P. James MCGLOIN who celebrates 60 years in the Society today.
Jubilee:
Diamond Jubilee of P. Joseph HAYES who celebrates 60 years in the Society today.
Jubilee:
Emerald Jubilee of P. Michael LEWIS who celebrates 55 years in the Society today.
Jubilee:
Emerald Jubilee of P. Nigel JOHNSON who celebrates 55 years in the Society today.
Jubilee:
Emerald Jubilee of P. Christopher CHATTERIS who celebrates 55 years in the Society today.
Jubilee:
Emerald Jubilee of P. Patrick MAKAKA who celebrates 55 years in the Society today.
Jubilee:
Emerald Jubilee of P. Joseph HAMPSON who celebrates 55 years in the Society today.
Jubilee:
Ruby Jubilee of P. Peter KNOX who celebrates 40 years in the Society today.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
Memorial: Sts. Stephen Pongracz, Melchior Grodziecki, in 1639, at Cassau in Transylvania the martrydom of Stephen Pongracz and companions, Jesuit priests, Mark Krizevcanin, canon of Estergom, martyrs.
1573
Death of Princess Juana, Regent of Spain, the emperor Charles V's daughter. She died with her Jesuit vows. "The only female Jesuit in the Church's history," writes Hugo Rahner.
1573
The death of Princess Juana, Regent of Spain, the emperor's daughter. She died as a Jesuit scholastic, having taken vows secretly under a special dispensation.
1909
Father General Franz Wernz established the province of Austria.
1966
The Second session of General Congregation 31 opens.
1977
Announcement of the decree of Fr. General uniting the two provinces of East Germany and Lower Germany into the new Province of North Germany. It takes effect on 1 January 1978.
2006
Londi Boka di Mpasi, S.J. He wrote two national anthems for Congo- Zaire, and founded Telema magazine.
