Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the cry of the Earth (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that each of us listen with our hearts to the cry of the Earth and of the victims of environmental disasters and the climate crisis, making a personal commitment to care for the world we inhabit."
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Saturday of the twenty-second week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle II
[436] 1 Cor 4:6b-15;Ps 145:17-18, 19-20, 21; Luke 6:1-5.
Hours of the day.
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Saturday Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Optional
Anniversary:
64th anniversary of the death of P. Bruno Wolnik (77) d. 1960 at Lusaka, N. Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
55th anniversary of the death of P. James Hughes (47) d. 1969 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Jubilee:
Blue Sapphire Jubilee of P. Paul EDWARDS who celebrates 65 years in the Society today.
Jubilee:
Blue Sapphire Jubilee of P. Brian MACGARRY who celebrates 65 years in the Society today.
Jubilee:
Diamond Jubilee of F. Benedict NGAWASEKE who celebrates 60 years in the Society today.
Jubilee:
Diamond Jubilee of F. Júlio Silvério GUIRIONE who celebrates 60 years in the Society today.
Jubilee:
Diamond Jubilee of P. Charles SEARSON who celebrates 60 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.
