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One of my favorite fall trees - Photo taken yesterday by my dear husband. Monday of the Thirty-First Week of Ordinary Time Today's Mass Readings Saint of the Day: Blessed Joan de Maille On This Day in Catholic History: 1499 - Publication of the Catholicon in Treguier (Brittany). 1999 - In New Delhi Pope John Paul II began a 3 day visit to India, his first visit there in 13 years. On This Day in Pro-life History: 2003 - President Bush signed a ban on partial birth abortion, but a federal judge in Nebraska immediately blocked its implementation in some states. Birthdays: 1905 - Joel McCrea , American actor; one of the great stars of American Westerns, and a very popular leading man in non-Westerns as well (d. 1990) 1911 - Roy Rogers , American actor and singer (d. 1998) 1913 - Vivien Leigh , English actress, Gone with the Wind , 1939 (d. 1967) 1940 - Elke Sommer , German actress 1947 - Peter Noone , English actor and musician, Herman's Hermits 1952 - Bill Walton , American b...

Memorial of St. Barnabas, apostle St. Barnabas, designated by the Holy Spirit to share the charge and mission of the twelve Apostles, is venerated by the Church as one of them. He played an important part in the first extension of Christianity outside the Jewish world. It was Barnabas who presented St. Paul to the other Apostles when, after his long retreat in Arabia, he came to Jerusalem for the first time after his conversion to submit for Peter's approval the mission to the Gentiles entrusted to him by the Master Himself. Barnabas was Paul's companion and helper on his first missionary journey and returned with him to Jerusalem, but left him when he set out on his second journey and went to Cyprus. The name of St. Barnabas is mentioned in the Canon of the Mass. Name Meaning son of encouragement; son of consolation Patronage against hailstorms; Antioch; Cyprus; invoked as peacemaker; Marino, Italy Representation ax; lance; middle-aged bearded apostle, often bearing a book or ...

Wednesday of the Second Week in Easter Mass Readings and Homily Saint of the Day On This Day in Catholic History 1161 Theobald, Archbishop of Canterbury , died. 1506 Commissioned by Pope Julius II, the foundation stone was laid for the new Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome. On This Day in Pro-life History 2007 - The US Supreme Court upheld the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act in a 5-4 decision. Birthdays 1605 - Giacomo Carissimi , Italian composer (d. 1674) 1819 - Franz von Suppé , Austrian composer (d. 1895) 1838 - Paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran , French scientist (d. 1912) 1924 - Henry Hyde , American politician 1940 - Joseph L. Goldstein , American scientist, Nobel laureate 1946 - Hayley Mills , English actress 1967 - Maria Bello , American actress