[117] Wis 18:6-9; Ps 33:1+12, 18-19, 20-22; Heb 11:1-2, 8-19 or 11:1-2, 8-12; Luke 12:32-48 or 12:35-40.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 3 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:
83rd anniversary of the death of F. Gerhard Zocholl (39) d. 1966 at Marymount, Mt. Darwin, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
81st anniversary of the death of P. William Weller (62) d. 1968 at Lusaka, Zambia.
Anniversary:
61st anniversary of the death of P. Denis Mangan (61) d. 1988 at Chinhoyi, Zimbabwe.
Anniversary:
59th anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Svec (67) d. 1990 at Bratislava, Slovakia.
Anniversary:
57th anniversary of the death of A. Francis Markall (87) d. 1992 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
Birthday:
72nd birthday of P. Wilfred M. SUMANI (born this day in 1977).
Birthday:
59th birthday of S. Matthew SALABAKILE (born this day in 1990).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1581
Anthony Possevino was received with extraordinary honors by Basilowicz, the Czar of Russia.
1581
Father Anthony Possevino was received with extraordinary honors by Basilowicz, the Czar of Russia.
1834
At London the Vicar Apostolic wrote to Propaganda that there were serious difficulties against the Jesuits having a church in London, which a benefactor offered to build. Gregory XVI then insisted that the Society was to have a church in the city.
1849
In Rome, the Republicans (Mazzinians) defeated by the French,tried to set fire to the Roman College.
1949
Letter of the Holy Office to Cardinal Cushing, on the Leonard Feeney case - extra ecclesiam nulla salus. The letter has this date on it, but was only made public later.
1989
William Cunningham, S.J. dies Chicago, activist lawyer.
2008
The death of Joseph Gelineau, S.J. pioneer on liturgical music, composer, singing the Psalms. Age. 87. Friend, composer for Taize, and Paris parish priest.
