Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For a shared mission (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that the Church continue to sustain a synodal lifestyle in every way, as a sign of co-responsibility, promoting the participation, communion and mission shared by priests, religious and laity."
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Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mass of the Sunday; gloria, creed.
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[149] Jer 31:7-9; Ps 126:1-2a, 2b-3, 4-5, 6; Heb 5:1-6; Mark 10:46-52.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 2 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:
143rd anniversary of the death of F. Joseph Dowling (35) d. 1881 at Mopeia, Mozambique.
Anniversary:
91st anniversary of the death of F. Anthony Barbera (73) d. 1933 at Chishawasha, S. Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
79th anniversary of the death of P. Francis Tomaka (63) d. 1945 at Kasisi, N. Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
79th anniversary of the death of P. Stanislaus Siemienski (61) d. 1945 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
25th anniversary of the death of P. Manuel Agostinho (84) d. 1999 at Cernache, Portugal.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1610
The first entrance of the Jesuit Fathers into Canada. This mission was recommended to the Society by King Henry IV of France.
1705
Tirso Gonzalez dies 13th General of the Society. He was a Promoter of the missions in China, India, Americas, and in Europe too.
1820
Several members of the Society are condemned by the 20th General Congregation of "plotting against the Institute."
1873
Departure of Fr. Beckx, General, from the Gesu, a pathetic scene.
1954
Henri Perrin, an ex-Jesuit worker priest, is killed in an unexplained motorcycle accident.
1996
Christophe Munzihirwa Mwene Ngabo SJ, archbishop of Bukavu in the Democratic Republic was murdered. He had denounced the political and economic exploitation of hundreds of thousands of Rwandan refugees who sought refuge in Kivu.
