Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the abolition of the death penalty (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "We pray that the death penalty, which attacks the dignity of the human person, may be legally abolished in every country."
Full Moon
11 Sunday
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Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mass of the Sunday; gloria, creed.
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[132] Exod 32:7-11, 13-14; Ps 51:3-4, 12-13, 17+19; 1 Tim 1:12-17; Luke 15:1-32 or 15:1-10.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 4 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:
103rd anniversary of the death of P. John Ross (62) d. 1919 at St Beuno's, Tremeirchion, N Wales.
Birthday:
48th birthday of P. Nicholas PENGE (born this day in 1974).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1681
Geoffrey Henschen dies at Antwerp. He was an assistant to Fr. Bollandus in the research on the saints.
1860
The Jesuits were expelled from Sicily and all their possessions confiscated.
1995
Henry De Decker, S.J. dies in the Cameroons. He was the first Rector of Hekima College, Nairobi, and was the Secretary of JESAM (Major Superiors of Africa) for thirteen years.
2003
Ignace de la Potterie, Belgian Jesuit, Johannine scholar, dies. Professor at the Biblical Institute.
