May 20th - Venerable Adolph Petit, SJBorn: May 22, 1822 Died: May 20, 1914 Fr Adolph Petit, a Belgian was born in Ghent of humble parents. His mother died when Adolph was five and as his father was unable to care for the family he was adopted by his godfather. He studied at the village…
May 19th - Blessed Peter Wright, SJBorn: 1603 Died: May 19, 1651 Beatified: December 15, 1929 Peter Wright was born in Slipton, Northamptonshire, England of poor parents with twelve children. Peter was still young when his father died and he had to work for a local lawyer in Thrapton to help support his large family.…
May 16th - Saint Andrew Bobola, SJDied : May 16, 1657 Beatified : 1853 Canonized : April 17, 1938 Andrew Bobola was born in 1591 in Strachocin, southern Poland, to a family that was part of the lesser nobility and known for its devotion to the Catholic church. At fifteen, he studied at the Jesuit…
May 12th - Servant of God Matteo Ricci, SJBorn: Oct 6, 1552 Died: May 11, 1610 Matthew Ricci, the “Apostle of China ,” was born in Macerata, Italy, of a prominent family and his father was the city’s governor. As the eldest son he was expected to continue the family’s honours of becoming a city…
May 11th - Saint Francis Jerome de Geronimo , SJDied : May 11, 1716 Beatified : May 2, 1806 Canonized : May 26, 1839 Francis Jerome, the first of eleven children in the De Geronimo family was born in 1642, in Grottaglie, near Taranto, in southern Italy. Around the age of ten he went to…
May 10th - Servant of God: Stephen Le Fevre, SJBorn:February 14, 1597 Died : May 10, 1657 Catholic church in Shanxi Stephen Le Favre, the first French Jesuit assigned to the Chinese mission was born in Mourieres, near Avignon in France. His desire to be a priest started when he was very young, but his…
May 8th - Servant of God: John Philip Roothaan, SJ Born: November 23, 1785 Died: May 8, 1853 Fr John Philip Roothaan, the twenty-first general of the Society of Jesus, was born in Amsterdam, Holland in 1785 when the Society was in its twelfth year of suppression due to political pressure from several European rulers.…
May 4th - Saint Joseph Mario Rubio, SJDied : May 2, 1929 Beatified : October 6, 1985 Canonized : May 4, 2003 Joseph Mario Rubio was born at Dalias, in the province of Almeria, Southern Spain in 1864. At the tender age of eleven, he went to the city of Almeria to begin his studies;…
DGeMs- Daily Gospel eMessage Eucharist: In today’s Gospel, Jesus proclaims with unequivocal clarity that the gift of the Eucharist is His real Flesh and real Blood, that will give Eternal Life to believers who consume them. Ponder on this Truth of Jesus, and allow its divine mystery to renew our faith in the Eucharist, with…
Daily Word Of GodJohn 6:52-59 The Jews started arguing among themselves, ‘How can this man give us his flesh to eat?’ Jesus replied to them: In all truth I tell you, if you do not eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Anyone who…