Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For parishes (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that parishes, placing communion at the centre, may increasingly become communities of faith, fraternity, and welcome towards those most in need."
9 Thursday
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Thursday of the fifth week in Ordinary Time.
Mass ad lib.
Cycle I
[332] Gen 2:18-25;Ps 128:1-2, 3, 4-5; Mark 7:24-30.
Hours of the day.
Anniversary:
88th anniversary of the death of P. Edward Buckland (71) d. 1935 at Preston, Lancs, England.
Anniversary:
34th anniversary of the death of F. George Feeney (55) d. 1989 at Lusaka, Zambia.
Birthday:
19th birthday of NS. Cephas Joseph CHODZAZA (born this day in 2004).
Birthday:
74th birthday of P. Michael LEWIS (born this day in 1949).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1809
Robert Molyneux, S.J. dies age 71. He was a missionary from England, the second President of Georgetown and the first Superior of the Jesuits in the USA.
1932
The Iraq mission is assigned to the New England Province.
1945
The Ateneo de Manila shelled and bombed, February 9-14th. The Japanese leave and the Americans arrive on the 19th.
