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The Thirty - Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
"But for you who fear My name, there will arise the sun of justice with its healing rays." (Malachi 3: 20b)


Today's Mass Readings


Collect: Father of all that is good, keep us faithful in serving you, for to serve you is our lasting joy. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.


Homily via Printed as Preached


On This Day in Catholic History:

1095 Pope Urban II opened the Council of Clermont to reform the Church and to plan the first crusade.

1302 Pope Boniface VIII (ca. 1235–1303) published the bull Unam sanctam against Philip IV (the Fair) of France, condemning Philip’s political interference with the affairs of the Church.

1626 - St. Peter's Basilica is consecrated.


1893 Pope Leo XIII (1810–1903) published the encyclical Providentissimus Deus, which strongly encouraged Roman Catholic educators to teach sound courses in biblical introduction and interpretation.


1965 A decree on the Apostolate of the Laity was issued by the Second Vatican Council.

1966 This was the last required meatless Friday for American Roman Catholics. In February Pope Paul VI (1897–1978) had made an apostolic decree that prayer or charitable works might be substituted as penance instead of fasting and abstinence.

Birthdays:

1786 - Carl Maria von Weber, Catholic German composer (d. 1826)

1870 - Dorothy Dix, pseudonym of US journalist Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer (d. 1951)

1874 - Clarence Day, American author (d. 1935)

1901 - George Gallup, American statistician and opinion pollster (d. 1984)

1906 - George Wald, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1997)

1908 - Imogene Coca, American actress and comedienne (d. 2001)

1909 - Johnny Mercer, American lyricist (d. 1976)

1923 - Alan Shepard, American astronaut (d. 1998)

1942 - Linda Evans, American actress

1975 - David Ortiz, Dominican baseball player

1988 - Jeffrey Jordan, son of Michael Jordan
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