Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For those fleeing their own countries (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that migrants fleeing from war or hunger, forced to undertake journeys fraught with danger and violence, may find welcome and new living opportunities in their host countries."
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Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mass of the Sunday; gloria, creed.
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[92] Ezek 17:22-24; Ps 92:2-3, 13-14, 15-16; 2 Cor 5:6-10; Mark 4:26-34.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 3 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:
136th anniversary of the death of P. Francis von Wersch (59) d. 1888 at Dunbrody, RSA.
Anniversary:
68th anniversary of the death of F. Patrick Mellon (74) d. 1956 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
53rd anniversary of the death of P. Adam Wargocki (35) d. 1971 at Katondwe, Zambia.
Anniversary:
39th anniversary of the death of P. Lachlan Hughes (60) d. 1985 at London, England.
Birthday:
23rd birthday of S. Chrispin STANDE (born this day in 2001).
Birthday:
23rd birthday of S. Costantino CHIBULA (born this day in 2001).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
Tradtional feast of St. John Francis Regis. "a wonderful apostle, whom no violence of cold, no snows, no torrents, no difficulties could stop when souls were to be saved."
1573
The close of the Third General Congregation, with some disturbance. Pope Gregory XIII had expressed a wish that the General should not be a Spaniard. Fr. Everard Mercurian, a Belgian, was elected.
1737
John Francis Regis is canonized.
1879
The end of the New York-Canada Mission. Links with France are cut. Canada is linked to England. 225 from New York are united with 300 from Maryland for a total of 525 in the new Province. For one year, it is called the NY Province.
1927
Letter of Fr. General Ledochowski to Ours on swimming, warning of the dangers. Ours are not to swim at health resorts and other like places, and obviously not with women. This letter follows a letter of July 1926 from the Sacred Congregation of Religious on swimming.
1929
Claude de la Colombiere is beatified.
1939
A further letter of Fr. General Ledochowski on swimming.
1994
Edward (Doc) Kilmartin S.J. dies. Theologian, expert on the Eucharist, from the New England Province.
1999
Jules Toner, S.J. dies, expert on discernment, Ignatian spirituality
