Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the cry of the Earth (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that each of us listen with our hearts to the cry of the Earth and of the victims of environmental disasters and the climate crisis, making a personal commitment to care for the world we inhabit."
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Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mass of the Sunday; gloria, creed.
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[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.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1540
The Bull of Pope Paul III, Regimini militantis Ecclesiae, constituting the Society a Religious Order, was signed at Palazzo San Marco, Rome. It limits the number of professed fathers to 60. Approbation Day. The Birthday of the Society of Jesus.
1622
In Quito, in the college seminary of St. Louis, the Jesuits founded the University of Gregory the Great.
1627
The Beatification of the Japanese martyrs, Paul Miki and companions, by Pope Urban VIII.
1927
37 Jesuits arrive to begin a Tertianship at Hot Springs, North Carolina. The property was given to the Jesuits by the widow of the son of President Andrew Johnson.
1946
John Baptist Janssens is elected 27th Superior General, at age 57.
