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."
Waning Gibbous
2 Sunday
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Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mass of the Sunday; gloria, creed.
Yr A
[112] Isa 55:1-3; Ps 145:8-9, 15-16, 17-18; Rom 8:35, 37-39; Matt 14:13-21.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 2 of the Psalter.
[RM]
Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Habib son of Gamaliel (the teacher of St Paul) (His tomb, and that of his father, is venerated in Beth Gemal.) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:
142nd anniversary of the death of S. Victor Bourdon (28) d. 1884 at Graaf Reinet, RSA.
Anniversary:
141st anniversary of the death of P. Emmanuel Gabriel (36) d. 1885 at Nyamassugo, Province of Mozambique.
Anniversary:
68th anniversary of the death of P. Arthur Graham (76) d. 1958 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
65th anniversary of the death of F. Maximillian Klopec (83) d. 1961 at Bulawayo, S. Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
41st anniversary of the death of P. Henry Van Roy (81) d. 1985 at Noucelles, Belgium.
Anniversary:
28th anniversary of the death of P. José Ribeiro (63) d. 1998 at Braga, Portugal.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
St Peter Faber, Optional Memorial
Saint Peter Faber, Priest (Optional Memorial)
Peter Faber (1506-1546) was born in Savoy, France. In 1525, he enrolled at the University of Paris. He was ordained a priest in May 1534. While in Paris, he was among the group of six students who under the leadership of Ignatius of Loyola would form the nucleus of the Society of Jesus, which was founded in 1540. Renowned as a religious scholar, spiritual guide, and talented mediator, Faber was tasked with missionary work and other important assignments throughout Europe. He was a pioneer of ecumenism. He died in Rome in August 1546. Pope Francis, by a decree of “equivalent canonization”, inscribed Faber in the Church’s universal calendar of saints on 17 December 2013.
1644
At Tournai died Father Francis de la Croix, singularly devout to Our Lady. He used to be heard walking about his room saying to himself: "I belong to the Society! I belong to the Society!"
1825
Newspapers report the visit of President John Quincy Adams to Gonzaga High, a few days earlier, to visit and examine the students in Latin and Greek.
1927
Oliver Parks, a young man, opens Parks Air College at Lambert Field, in St. Louis. It became the first federally approved school of aeronautics, and was given to Saint Louis University in 1946.
1964
Gerald Kelly, S.J. dies Moral theologian. Modern Youth and Chastity.
1981
Carlos Perez Alonso, aged 45, chaplain at a military hospital in Guatemala, disappeared and is presumed to have been killed during a period of repression.
