Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For vocations to the priesthood and religious life (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that the ecclesial community might welcome the desires and doubts of those young people who feel a call to serve Christ’s mission in the priesthood and religious life."
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Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mass of the Sunday; Gloria, Creed, Pref. of Sunday.
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[75] Isa 6:1-2a, 3-8; Ps 138:1-2a, 2b-3, 4-5, 7-8; 1 Cor 15:1-11 or 15:3-8, 11; Luke 5:1-11.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 1 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:
90th anniversary of the death of P. Edward Buckland (71) d. 1935 at Preston, Lancs, England.
Anniversary:
36th anniversary of the death of F. George Feeney (55) d. 1989 at Lusaka, Zambia.
Birthday:
21st birthday of NS. Cephas Joseph CHODZAZA (born this day in 2004).
Birthday:
76th 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.
