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Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mass of the Sunday; gloria, creed.
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[120] Jer 38:4-6, 8-10; Ps 40:2, 3, 4, 18; Heb 12:1-4; Luke 12:49-53.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 4 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:
48th anniversary of the death of P. Terence Filby (62) d. 1974 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
32nd anniversary of the death of P. Trevor Paine (83) d. 1990 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
Anniversary:
23rd anniversary of the death of P. Shaun Curran (75) d. 1999 at Dublin, Ireland.
Anniversary:
9th anniversary of the death of F. Davy Byrne (HIB) (78) d. 2013 at Dublin, Ireland.
Birthday:
61st birthday of P. Antony X. SAHAYA (born this day in 1961).
Birthday:
37th birthday of S. Mapeza P. MASELECHI (born this day in 1985).
Birthday:
47th birthday of P. Russell POLLITT (born this day in 1975).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1599
Letter from Father Claude Acquaviva on the use of the Spiritual Exercises.
1610
Fr. General forbids Jesuits to discuss the book of Father Mariana, S.J. according to which kings or tyrants might be assassinated.
1618
The father of John Berchmans is ordained a priest. His son John was still in the novitiate.
1794
Pius VI signed the Bull, Auctorem Fidei in defense of devotion to the Sacred Heart. The Jansenist Synod of Pistoia is there condemned.
1812
Arrival at Polosk, in White Russia, of Napoleon I and his army; plunder of the Society’s property, violation of the Generals’ tombs.
1936
The deaths of Servants of God Joachim Valentí, Louis Boguñá, and Joseph Vergés, martyrs of the Spanish Civil War, killed by machine gun fire the day after their arrests.
