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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Tuesday of the twenty-seventh week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle II
[462] Gal 1:13-24;Ps 139:1b-3, 13-14ab, 14c-15; Luke 10:38-42.
Hours of the day.
[RM]
Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Shemaiah, prophet (cf. 1 Kgs 12:22) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:
35th anniversary of the death of P. Bart Watson (72) d. 1989 at London, England.
Anniversary:
15th anniversary of the death of P. Lawrence Tomazin (79) d. 2009 at Lusaka, Zambia.
Birthday:
27th 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.
