Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For mental health ministry. (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that the mental health ministry be established throughout the Church, helping to overcome the stigma and discrimination of persons with mental illnesses."
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11 Sunday
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Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mass of the Sunday; gloria, creed.
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[142] Isa 25:6-10a; Ps 23:1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6; Phil 4:12-14, 19-20; Matt 22:1-14 or 22:1-10.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 4 of the Psalter.
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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:
115th anniversary of the death of P. Denys Corboy (60) d. 1911 at Bedford, South Africa.
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.
