Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For those who have lost a child (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that all parents who mourn the loss of a son or daughter find support in their community, and may receive peace of heart from the Spirit of Consolation."
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Friday of the thirty-second week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle II
[495] 2 John 4-9;Ps 119:1, 2, 10, 11, 17, 18; Luke 17:26-37.
Hours of the day.
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St Albert the Great, bishop and doctor of the Church Common of Pastors, or Common of Doctors of the Church Readings from the Common of Saints: [675] Sir 15:1-6 (#725.3); Ps 119:9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 (#727.3); Matt 13:47-52 (#730.3).
Optional
Anniversary:
104th anniversary of the death of P. Basil Padreddi (51) d. 1920 at Grahamstown, RSA.
Anniversary:
9th anniversary of the death of P. Anthony Geoghegan (84) d. 2015 at Lusaka, Zambia.
Birthday:
29th birthday of S. David MWANZA (born this day in 1995).
Birthday:
83rd birthday of P. Patrick MAKAKA (born this day in 1941).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1628
St. Roch Gonzalez, S.J. an American Indian. is martyred, in Uruguay, with Alphonsus Rodriguez, S.J. He is one of the architects of the Jesuit Reductions in Uruguay and Paraguay. His feast is November 16th.
1811
In Rome, the death of Joseph Pignatelli, a Spaniard of noble birth, a golden link between the Old and New Society. He died three years before the Restoration.
1856
Herbert Thurston is born. Prolific author on saints and spiritualists and spirituality..
1948
Louis Twomey inaugurates Christ’s Blueprint for the South, intended originally for social consciousness raising among Jesuits.
