18th International Day of Prayer and Awareness Against Human Trafficking (est. 2015)
Mass of the Sunday; Gloria, Creed, Pref. of Sunday.
Yr A
[73] Isa 58:7-10; Ps 112:4-5, 6-7, 8-9; 1 Cor 2:1-5; Matt 5:13-16.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 1 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:
15th anniversary of the death of P. Thomas Jackson (ZIM) (92) d. 2017 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1550
Julius III (Cardinal del Monte) ascended the Papal Chair. To him the Society owes the Confirmation of its Institute.
1885
Isidore Boudreaux dies in Chicago. He was a Master of Novices at Florissant, from 1857-80, and was the first to enter the Society from our college in Missouri.
1890
At Rome in the Palazzo Barberini, the death of Cardinal Joseph Pecci, the brother of Pope Leo XIII. He left the Society in 1847, but some forty years later was readmitted by the Pope's desire.
