35th International Day of Prayer and Awareness Against Human Trafficking (est. 2015)
Mass ad lib.
Cycle I
[329] Gen 1:1-19;Ps 104:1-2a, 5-6, 10+12, 24+35c; Mark 6:53-56.
Hours of the day.
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St Jerome Emiliani, priest Common of Holy Men and Women: For Teachers (Readings from the Common of Saints: [529] Tob 12:6-13 (#737.8); Ps 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9, 10-11 (#739.5); Mark 10:17-30 or 10:17-27 (#742.17).
Optional
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St Josephine Bakhita, virgin Common of Virgins (Readings from the Common of Saints: [529A] 1 Cor 7:25-35 (#734.1); Ps 45:11-12, 14-15, 16-17 (#733.1); Matt 25:1-13 (#736.2).
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Anniversary:
32nd 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.
