Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the gift of diversity in the Church (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that the Spirit help us recognize the gift of different charisms within the Christian community, and to discover the richness of different ritual traditions in the heart of the Catholic Church."
9 Tuesday
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Tuesday of the first week in Ordinary Time.
Mass ad lib.
Cycle II
[306] 1 Sam 1:9-20;1 Sam 2:1, 4-5, 6-7, 8; Mark 1:21-28.
Hours of the day.
Archdioceses of Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg, South Africa [SACBC]
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St Adrian of Canterbury, Abbot
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Common of Pastors
Anniversary:
64th anniversary of the death of P. Bevis Collings (56) d. 1960 at Makumbi, S. Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
26th anniversary of the death of P. William Lane (66) d. 1998 at Choma, Zambia.
Anniversary:
18th anniversary of the death of P. Augusto Correia Pinto (90) d. 2006 at Braga, Portugal.
Anniversary:
16th anniversary of the death of F. Christopher Murray (HIB) (96) d. 2008 at Dublin, Ireland.
Birthday:
27th birthday of NS. Bongani Gerald G. TSHUMA (born this day in 1997).
Birthday:
34th birthday of S. Mark ZULU (born this day in 1990).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1567
The first missionaries to Peru, nine in number, are sent by St. Francis Borgia.
1831
Father Peter de Smet and a few companions sail from Europe for North America.
1986
Michel de Certeau, S.J. dies, age 61. Writer, anthropology, 1987. The death of William Lynch, S.J. He wrote on religion and literature: Christ and Apollo, Images of Hope, Images of Faith, etc.
