Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For respect for human life. (Read Reflection) "Let us pray for the respect and protection of human life in all its stages, recognizing it as a gift from God."
Waning Crescent
12 Sunday
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Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
107th Sea Sunday (est. 1919)
Mass of the Sunday; gloria, creed.
Yr A
[103] Isa 55:10-11; Ps 65:10, 11, 12-13, 14; Rom 8:18-23; Matt 13:1-23 or 13:1-9.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 3 of the Psalter.
[RM]
Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Veronica (Berenike), pious woman (cf. Lk. 23:27) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:
134th anniversary of the death of F. Manuel de Freitas (35) d. 1892 at Inhambane, Portuguese Eastern Africa.
Anniversary:
5th anniversary of the death of P. David Rowan (SAP) (68) d. 2021 at Johannesburg, RSA.
Jubilee:
Pearl Jubilee of P. Kelly MICHELO who celebrates 30 years in the Society today.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1760
The banishment of Ours from Maranhao, South America.
1936
Arthur Vermeersch, S.J. dies Belgium. Author of Miles Christi Jesu, et al. Canon lawyer, moral theologian. He taught at Louvain and the Gregorian.
1994
Symposium on the Brothers opens in Loyola, Spain, in preparation for the 34th General Congregation.
2000
Fr. Remis Kerketta, S.J. age 47, is shot and killed by assassins. He was a school headmaster, in the state of Bihar, near Ranchi.
