Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For political leaders (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that political leaders be at the service of their own people, working for integral human development and the common good, taking caring of those who have lost their jobs and giving priority to the poor."
Waxing Crescent
25 Sunday
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Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mass of the Sunday; gloria, creed.
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[122] Josh 24:1-2a, 15-17, 18b; Ps 34:2-3, 16-17, 18-19, 20-21; Eph 5:21-32 or [US] 5:2a, 25-32; John 6:60-69.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 1 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:
89th anniversary of the death of F. Thomas Arnold (74) d. 1935 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
20th anniversary of the death of P. Maurice Rea (93) d. 2004 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
Birthday:
68th birthday of P. Ludwik ZAPAŁA (born this day in 1956).
Birthday:
89th birthday of -P. Eberhard FUHGE (born this day in 1935).
Birthday:
32nd birthday of D. Herbert Nharo SHOKO (born this day in 1992).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
Old Jesuit Martyrology. Bl. Michael Carvahlo and Companions.
1536
They renewed their vows on the same feast, in the same church. In 1536 Codure and Broet joined them. Ignatius was absent, being in Venice.
1546
Peter Faber dies, age 40.
1617
Paul V’s Brief to Father Francis Suarez thanking him for his labors and writings in Portugal in defense of the rights of the Holy See.
1651
At Galway died Fr. Christopher Netterville, son of Viscount Netterville. During the Cromwellian reign of terror he had to conceal himself for over a year in his father's sepulcre.
1666
At Beijing, the death of Father John Adam Schall. By his profound knowledge of mathematics and astronomy he attained such fame that the Emperor entrusted to him the reform of the Chinese Calendar. Through his means 100,000 persons are said to have been converted in fourteen years.
1986
Candido Dalmases dies in Rome; historian, on Ignatius and Xavier.
