Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For a Eucharistic life (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that Catholics place at the centre of their lives the Eucharistic Celebration, which transforms human relationships profoundly and opens up an encounter with God and their brothers and sisters."
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Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mass of the Sunday; gloria, creed.
Yr A
[103] Isa 55:10-11; Ps 65:10, 11, 12-13, 14; Rom 8:18-23; Matt 13:1-23 or 13:1-9.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 3 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:
63rd anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Seed (76) d. 1960 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
48th anniversary of the death of P. Sean McCarron (HIB) (68) d. 1975 at Limerick, Ireland.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1576
Gregory XIII exempted the members of the Society from attendance at public processions by his Constitution, Quaecumque sacrarum religionum.
1580
At Lyford Castle, the betrayal and arrest of Edmund Campion and Brother Ralph Emerson by Elliot.
1766
Giuseppe Castiglione, S.J. dies age 78. brother, Painter, missionary to China. Painting of "One Hundred Excellent Horses." The emperor paid him tribute and his funeral expenses. A Jesuit remarked that "he with his art promoted the cause of Christianity more than anyone else had."
1781
In Canada died Father Potier, the last of the Jesuit missionaries in Western Canada, where he had labored 7 years.
2002
David Toolan, S.J. dies, age 66. Writer, assistant editor at Commonweal, and America, and author of At Home in the Cosmos, on science and theology, and ecology.
