Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: An environmentally sustainable lifestyle (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "We pray that we all will make courageous choices for a simple and environmentally sustainable lifestyle, rejoicing in our young people who are resolutely committed to this."
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Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mass of the Sunday; gloria, creed.
Yr B
[131] Isa 50:4c-9a; Ps 116:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 8-9; Jas 2:14-18; Mark 8:27-35.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 4 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:
87th anniversary of the death of P. Patrick Caulfield (67) d. 1934 at Port Elizabeth, RSA.
Anniversary:
61st anniversary of the death of P. Edmund Turner (64) d. 1960 at Port Elizabeth, RSA.
Anniversary:
33rd anniversary of the death of F. Joseph Gajdos (81) d. 1988 at Kasisi, Zambia.
Birthday:
21st birthday of NS. Nicholas BWALYA (born this day in 2000).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1540
At Rome, Pedro Ribadeneira, aged fourteen, was admitted into the Society by St. Ignatius. This was nine days before official papal confirmation of the Society.
1557
At Worms, a public discussion opens between Catholics and heretics, in which Canisius took part.
1665
At Antwerp, the death of John Bollandus, one of the first of the Bollandists, the great work of the Acta Sanctorum. He was the successor to Fr. H. Rosweyde who was the founder.
1706
Father Albert Montaldo entered the Society. He was about eighty years old at the Suppression, yet he lived to see the Restoration in 1814, being over 120 years of age. He was one of the 86 members of the Old Society who knelt at the feet of Pius VII in the Gesu on August 7, 1814.
1744
Benedict XIV's second Bull, Omnium sollicitudinum forbidding the Chinese Rites. Persecution followed in China. This is also listed as Sept. l3.
1936
Servant of God Emmanuel González (1889-1936), Martyr of the Spanish Civil War. Accused of supporting the nationalist movement against the communists, he was taken from prison in the middle ofthe night and executed.
