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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Saturday of the twenty-seventh week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle II
[466] Gal 3:22-29;Ps 105:2-3, 4-5, 6-7; Luke 11:27-28.
Hours of the day.
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Saturday Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Optional
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Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Shemaiah, prophet (cf. 1 Kgs 12:22) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:
33rd anniversary of the death of P. Bart Watson (72) d. 1989 at London, England.
Anniversary:
13th anniversary of the death of P. Lawrence Tomazin (79) d. 2009 at Lusaka, Zambia.
Birthday:
25th birthday of S. Moniz Fernando REIS (born this day in 1997).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1834
Arrival at Calcutta of Fathers from England, sent at Gregory XVI’s desire.
1871
The Chicago Fire. The city is destroyed, but it misses the Jesuit parish as it turns north thanks to the prayers of Fr. Arnold Damen.
1955
Solemn dedication and opening of Shrub Oak, New York Maryland Province philosophate with Cardinal Spellman.
1969
The death of Louis Twomey, an advocate of interracial justice and labor relations in the United States.
1983
The death of Jeanne Marie Mortier, secretary and assistant to Teilhard de Chardin, to whom he entrusted his manuscripts.
