Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the terminally ill (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that the sick who are in the final stages of life, and their families, receive the necessary medical and human care and accompaniment."
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Friday of the fifth week in Ordinary Time.
Mass ad lib.
Cycle II
[333] 1 Kgs 11:29-32; 12:19;Ps 81:10-11ab, 12-13, 14-15; Mark 7:31-37.
Hours of the day.
Anniversary:
89th anniversary of the death of P. Edward Buckland (71) d. 1935 at Preston, Lancs, England.
Anniversary:
35th anniversary of the death of F. George Feeney (55) d. 1989 at Lusaka, Zambia.
Birthday:
20th birthday of NS. Cephas Joseph CHODZAZA (born this day in 2004).
Birthday:
75th 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.
