Feasts, Obligatory and Optional Memorials of Saints
- Martin de Porres, religious
- Winifrid, virgin and martyr
- Rumwald
- Hubert, bishop
- Pirminus, bishop
- Amicus
- Malachy, bishop
- Rupert Mayer
Martin: (died 1639 A.D.); born in Lima of a Spanish father and a black slave mother; O.P. lay brother who humbly ministered to the poor and the sick, especially African slaves; devoted to the Holy Eucharist; a close friend of Rose of Lima; patron of social justice and of peoples of mixed races.
Blessed Rupert Mayer, SJ, (1876-1945 A.D.) was ordained a Jesuit priest in 1899 A.D. He became a chaplain in World War I where he lost a leg in action while giving absolution to a German soldier. After the end of WWI he worked among the poor in Munich. Upon Adolf Hitler's rise to power, he was one of the first German clergymen to challenge the Nazis, declaring 'a true Catholic cannot be a National Socialist.' The Nazis arrested him many times. In 1939 A.D., his arrest led to solitary confinement for four years and was finally released by Allied forces in 1945 A.D. He returned to Munich, renewed his apostolate to the poor and died among them.
The Jesuits of the Philippines composed a song in honor of Blessed Rupert Mayer, SJ. The song is entitled, "Prayer of Rupert Mayer".
Lord, what You will let it be so
Where You will there we will go
What is Your will help us to know
Lord, when You will the time is right
In You there's joy in strife
For Your will I'll give my life
To ease your burden brings no pain
To forego all for You is gain
As long as I in You remain!
Because You will it, it is best
Because You will it, we are blest
Till in Your hands our hands find rest
Our hearts find rest
Till in Your hands our hands find rest
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