Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For a Church open to everyone (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "We pray for the Church; ever faithful to, and courageous in preaching the Gospel, may the Church be a community of solidarity, fraternity and welcome, always living in an atmosphere of synodality."
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Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mass of the Sunday; gloria, creed.
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[141] Habb 1:2-3, 2:2-4; Ps 95:1-2, 6-7, 8-9; 2 Tim 1:6-8, 13-14; Luke 17:5-10.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 3 of the Psalter.
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Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture our Guardian angels (cf. Mt. 18:10) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:
104th anniversary of the death of P. Alfred Mayer (49) d. 1918 at Petworth, W. Sussex, England.
Anniversary:
24th anniversary of the death of P. Patrick Lewis (94) d. 1998 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
Birthday:
50th birthday of P. Felix Kabuswe MWEWA (born this day in 1972).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1636
St. Isaac Jogues first set foot on the shores of the New World after two stormy months on the ocean.
1648
In the Church of the Gesu, the Bona Mors Confraternity is founded by the 7th Fr. General, Vincent Caraffa.
1836
Gregory XVI gives the direction and government of the Pontificial Urban College of the Propagation of the Faith to the Society of Jesus.
1892
Father Louis Martin is elected General at Loyola, Spain.
1912
Blessed John Beyzym, S.J. missionary from the Ukraine to work with the lepers in Madagascar, died on this day.
1954
The Cornerstone is laid for Loyola Seminary, Shrub Oak, NY.
1960
Edward Garesche, S.J. dies. He founded the "Queen's Work" and Catholic Medical Mission Board, which he directed from 1929 to 1960.
1964
Fr. General Janssens suffers a stroke, and dies three days later.
1996
Loyola Jesuit College, Abuja, Nigeria opens. Premier College.
