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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Wednesday of the twenty-seventh week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle II
[463] Gal 2:1-2, 7-14;Ps 117:1bc, 2; Luke 11:1-4.
Hours of the day.
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St Denis, bishop and martyr, and companions, martyrs Common of Martyrs Readings from the Common of Saints: [654] 2 Cor 6:4-10 (#716.4); Ps 126:1bc-2ab, 2cd-3, 4-5, 6 (#715.4); Matt 5:13-16 (#742.2).
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St John Leonardi, priest Common of Pastors, or Common of Holy Men and Women: For Those Who Work for the Underprivileged Readings from the Common of Saints: [655] 2 Cor 4:1-2, 5-7 (#722.6); Ps 96:1-2, 2-3, 7-8, 10 (#721.5); Luke 5:1-11 (#724.7).
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[RM]
Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Abraham, patriarch (cf. Gn. 17:3-5) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:
75th anniversary of the death of P. Vladimir ZukotýNsky (85) d. 1949 at Stara Wies, Poland .
Anniversary:
37th anniversary of the death of P. Louis Haven (67) d. 1987 at Kabwe, Zambia.
Anniversary:
19th anniversary of the death of P. James McPolin (HIB) (74) d. 2005 at Dublin, Ireland.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1607
Francis de Sales visits the chapel of Blessed Peter Faber whom he revered as a saint.
1627
Jansenius lefdt Louvain for Salamanca to create an excitement against the Jesuits and prevent Philip IV from giving to them the large college of Madrid.
1820
The 20th General Congregation of the Society opened. The first to be held by the restored Society, it elected Luigi Fortis as Superior General.
1820
The 20th General Congregation opens. The first of the restored Society. Aloysius Fortis is elected the 20th Superior General.
1972
Jose Maria Posada dies Columbia. Social worker and Provincial.
