Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For a Church open to everyone (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "We pray for the Church; ever faithful to, and courageous in preaching the Gospel, may the Church be a community of solidarity, fraternity and welcome, always living in an atmosphere of synodality."
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Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time
42nd World Food Day (est. 1981)
Mass of the Sunday; gloria, creed.
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[147] Exod 17:8-13; Ps 121:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8; 2 Tim 3:14-4:2; Luke 18:1-8.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 1 of the Psalter.
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Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Longinus, centurion (cf. Jn. 19:33-34) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:
111th anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Ronchi (49) d. 1911 at Kimberley, RSA.
Anniversary:
63rd anniversary of the death of P. Stephen Mazurek (68) d. 1959 at Kasisi, N. Rhodesia.
6th anniversary of the death of P. Robert Carty (99) d. 2016 at Boscombe, England.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
St Hedwig, religious, and St Margaret Mary Alacoque, virgin, optional memorials. St. Claude assisted St. Margaret Mary.
1546
Isabel Roser is released from her Jesuit vows by St. Ignatius after eight months.
1594
Students of the English College in Rome broke into a sort of rebellion against the Jesuits in charge. It was incited by Protestants and lasted five years.
1594
Students of the English College in Rome broke into a sort of rebellion against the Jesuits in charge there.
1788
The Bollandists are forced to give up their work, because of the effects of the Suppression.
1918
The death of James Lonergan, S.J. He had a seventeen year regency at Spring Hill College.
1927
The opening of the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Jerusalem.
1944
John Svensson dies Author of children’s literature. His books were translated into 30 languages.
1992
The University of San Francisco holds a symposium on the Chinese Rites controversy.
