Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the care of water. (Read Reflection) "Let us pray for a just and sustainable management of water, a vital resource, so that everyone may have equal access to it."
New Moon
13 Sunday
green
Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mass of the Sunday; gloria, creed.
Yr A
[130] Sir 27:30-28:9; Ps 103:1-2, 3-4, 9-10, 11-12; Rom 14:7-9; Matt 18:21-35.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 4 of the Psalter.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1571
Martyrdom of Pedro Diaz and eleven missionaries of Brazil, in waters of the Atlantic, near the Canary Islands.
1669
At Paris the pamphlet Anonyme by the Jansenist Arnauld, a publication full of vile calumnies and invectives agains the Society, was burnt by the King’s order.
1773
Frederick II of Prussia informs the Pope that the Jesuits will not be suppressed in Prussia, and invites Jesuits to come.
1983
Peter-Hans Kolvenbach is elected the 29th Superior General at the 33rd General Congregation, age 55.
1998
Cardinal Alois Grillmeier dies age 88. He was a professor at St. Georgen, Frankfurt, and wrote Christ in Christian Tradition. He was created a Cardinal on 26 November 1994.
