Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the abolition of torture (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that the international community may commit itself concretely to abolish torture, guaranteeing support to victims and their families."
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Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mass of the Sunday; gloria, creed.
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[91] Exod 19:2-6a; Ps 100:1-2, 3, 5; Rom 5:6-11; Matt 9:36-10:8.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 3 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:
96th anniversary of the death of P. Edward Biehler (66) d. 1927 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Jubilee:
Golden Jubilee of P. John KIEŁBASA who celebrates 50 years of Priesthood today.
Jubilee:
Golden Jubilee of P. Peter CARROLL who celebrates 50 years of Priesthood today.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1581
Gregory XIII visits the Gregorian, as its benefactor, to oversee the construction.
1817
Archbishop Leonard Neale dies. He was a Jesuit until the Suppression and a President of Georgetown. He succeeded Archbishop John Carroll in Baltimore.
1844
Seventeen Jesuits arrived in Bogotá, Colombia, to e-establish the Society 80 years after Jesuits were banished.
1860
Five Jesuits are killed in Syria by Druses.
1972
Edward "Doc" Bunn, S.J. dies Georgetown President.
1978
Gaston Fessard, S.J. dies Philosopher, author, expert on the Spiritual Exercises.
2004
The Toledo and Castille provinces merge to form the Castille Province.
