Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the Synod (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray for the Church, that she may adopt listening and dialogue as a style of life at every level, allowing herself to be guided by the Holy Spirit towards the world’s peripheries."
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Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mass of the Sunday; gloria, creed.
Yr A
[139] Isa 5:1-7; Ps 80:9+12, 13-14, 15-16, 19-20; Phil 4:6-9; Matt 21:33-43.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 3 of the Psalter.
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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:
34th anniversary of the death of P. Bart Watson (72) d. 1989 at London, England.
Anniversary:
14th anniversary of the death of P. Lawrence Tomazin (79) d. 2009 at Lusaka, Zambia.
Birthday:
26th 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.
