Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For collaboration between different religious traditions (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that believers in different religious traditions might work together to defend and promote peace, justice and human fraternity."
8 Wednesday
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Wednesday of the twenty-seventh week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle I
[463] Jonah 4:1-11;Ps 86:3-4, 5-6, 9-10; Luke 11:1-4.
Hours of the day.
[RM]
Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Shemaiah, prophet (cf. 1 Kgs 12:22) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:
36th anniversary of the death of P. Bart Watson (72) d. 1989 at London, England.
Anniversary:
16th anniversary of the death of P. Lawrence Tomazin (79) d. 2009 at Lusaka, Zambia.
Birthday:
28th birthday of S. Moniz Fernando REIS (born this day in 1997).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1834
Arrival at Calcutta of Fathers from England, sent at Gregory XVI’s desire.
1871
The Chicago Fire. The city is destroyed, but it misses the Jesuit parish as it turns north thanks to the prayers of Fr. Arnold Damen.
1955
Solemn dedication and opening of Shrub Oak, New York Maryland Province philosophate with Cardinal Spellman.
1969
The death of Louis Twomey, an advocate of interracial justice and labor relations in the United States.
1983
The death of Jeanne Marie Mortier, secretary and assistant to Teilhard de Chardin, to whom he entrusted his manuscripts.
