Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the cry of the Earth (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that each of us listen with our hearts to the cry of the Earth and of the victims of environmental disasters and the climate crisis, making a personal commitment to care for the world we inhabit."
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Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mass of the Sunday; gloria, creed.
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[128] Isa 35:4-7a; Ps 146:7, 8-9a, 9b-10; Jas 2:1-5; Mark 7:31-37.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 3 of the Psalter.
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Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture the Nativity of Mary (cf. Apoc. James 5:2) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:
31st anniversary of the death of P. Edward O'Connor (88) d. 1993 at Lusaka, Zambia.
Birthday:
54th birthday of P. Joseph ARIMOSO (born this day in 1970).
Birthday:
48th birthday of P. Hector MUKWATO (born this day in 1976).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1654
At Carthagena, Colombia, the death of Peter Claver. Age 74, with 38 years as apostle to the slaves.
1753
John Carroll enters the Society of Jesus.
1762
Pope Clement XIII issued a bull declaring the sentence of the French Parliament against the Society on August 6th to be null and void.
1847
During the revolution in Rome loud cries were heard in the streets, "Death to the Jesuits."
1911
The first retreat is held at Mt. Manresa, Staten Island, at a retreat house exclusively for laity. Fr. Shealy is the director. The retreat house, Fox Hall villa, was purchased in April, with 20 acres.
1923
During his term as General, Wlodimir Ledochowski summoned two general congregations, something that no one else had done since the time of Aquaviva. The first, GC27,he convoked for September 1922, to bring the Society into conformity with the new Code of Canon Law (1917); the second, GC28, in 1938, was to elect a vicar to assist him in governing the Society.
1936
The death of Servant of God Richard Tena, martyr of the Spanish Civil War, who was too old and infirm to leave Spain as many other Jesuits had done. Despite his age, he was arrested and shot.
1977
Letter of Fr. General formally convokes the 66th Congregation of Procurators to begin on September 27, l978.
2014
Reactions to the ex officio letters on the theme of reconciliation, Working for Peace.
