Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For evangelization in the city. (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that in large cities often marked by anonymity and loneliness we find new ways to proclaim the Gospel, discovering creative paths to build community."
Waxing Crescent
16 Sunday
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Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mass of the Sunday; gloria, creed.
Yr A
[118] Isa 56:1, 6-7; Ps 67:2-3, 5, 6+8; Rom 11:13-15, 29-32; Matt 15:21-28.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 4 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:
122nd anniversary of the death of F. Edward de Smedt (35) d. 1904 at Dunbrody, RSA.
Anniversary:
57th anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Otto (71) d. 1969 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
17th anniversary of the death of F. Franz Gabriel (89) d. 2009 at Berlin, Germany.
Anniversary:
3rd anniversary of the death of F. Paul A. Desmarais (SAP) (78) d. 2023 at Pickering, ON, Canada.
Birthday:
92nd birthday of F. Hubert SIMON (born this day in 1934).
26th birthday of S. Sean Tanaka SHONIWA (born this day in 2000).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1773
The Suppression of the Society of Jesus by Clement XIV. Publication of the Brief Dominus ac Redemptor. Father General Ricci is led away prisoner to the English College. There were 22,589 Jesuits, and 670 colleges.
1773
The suppression of the Society of Jesus came with the publication of Clement XIV’s Brief "Dominus ac Redemptor." Father General Lorenzo Ricci was led away as a prisoner to the English College.
1802
The death of Pierre Gibault, S.J. He accompanied Clark on his explorations to the Mississippi.
1962
Joseph Schuh, S.J. arrives in Lagos, Nigeria. The mission of the NY Province begins there.
1967
John Courtney Murray, S.J. dies. Theologian. We Hold These Truths.
