Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For mental health ministry. (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that the mental health ministry be established throughout the Church, helping to overcome the stigma and discrimination of persons with mental illnesses."
Waning Crescent
8 Thursday
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Thursday of the twenty-seventh week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle II
[464] Gal 3:1-5;Luke 1:69-70, 71-72, 73-75; Luke 11:5-13.
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:
37th anniversary of the death of P. Bart Watson (72) d. 1989 at London, England.
Anniversary:
17th anniversary of the death of P. Lawrence Tomazin (79) d. 2009 at Lusaka, Zambia.
Birthday:
29th birthday of S. Moniz Fernando REIS (born this day in 1997).
Jubilee:
Ruby Jubilee of P. Andrzej LEÅšNIARA who celebrates 40 years in the Society today.
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.
