Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the integration of migrants. (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that, accompanied and comforted by the Holy Family on their own journey of being uprooted, migrants and displaced persons might find communities that welcome them with dignity, solidarity, and true integration."
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18 Thursday
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Thursday of the thirty-third week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle I
[500] 1 Macc 2:15-29;Ps 50:1b-2, 5-6, 14-15; Luke 19:41-44.
Hours of the day.
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Dedication of the Basilicas of Saints Peter and Paul, apostles (Both readings proper in Lect. [679]) PROPER Readings from the Common of Saints: [679] Acts 28:11-16, 30-31; Ps 98:1, 2-3ab, 3cd-4, 5-6; Matt 14:22-33.
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Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Noah (cf. Gn 5:25-9:29) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:
18th anniversary of the death of P. Luís Ferdinando Torres da Costa E Silva (77) d. 2009 at Joaquim Pires, Piauí, Brazil.
Anniversary:
8th anniversary of the death of F. Narciso Mariano Belo (ZIM) (30) d. 2019 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
Birthday:
41st birthday of P. Tinashe KUNZE (born this day in 1986).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1674
In Paris the death of Fr. Charles Lallemant, the second founder of the Missions in New France.
1755
The opening of the 18th General Congregation. Centurione is elected.
