Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For collaboration between different religious traditions (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that believers in different religious traditions might work together to defend and promote peace, justice and human fraternity."
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Saturday of the twenty-seventh week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle I
[466] Joel 4:12-21;Ps 97:1-2, 5-6, 11-12; Luke 11:27-28.
Hours of the day.
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St John XXIII, pope Common of Pastors: For a Pope Readings from the Common of Saints: [655A] Ezek 34:11-16 (#719.9); Ps 23:1-3a, 4, 5, 6 (#721.2); John 21:15-17 (#724.12).
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Saturday Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary
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Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Philip, deacon (cf. Acts 8:5-6) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:
114th anniversary of the death of P. Denys Corboy (60) d. 1911 at Bedford, England.
The Feast of St. Ignatius is raised to a "double" and extended to the universal church.
1688
King Louis XIV forbade all correspondence and interchange between the French Jesuits and Father General Thyrsus Gonzalez.
1688
King Louis XIV forbade all correspondence and interchange between the French Jesuits and the Spanish General, Thyrsus Gonzalez. This petty tyranny lasted two years.
1723
The deaths in Vietnam of Servants of God John Baptist Messari and Francis Mary Bucherelli, martyrs.
1958
Pierre LeJay, S.J. dies. He was a French Jesuit, famed geophysicist, member of the French Academy, and did research on the continental drift.
1963
Walter Ciszek, S.J. is freed from prison camp in Russia. He had been in detention since 1938.
