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Optional Memorial of St. Stanislaus Today's Mass Readings Today's Homily: Fr. Philip N. Powell, OP Church of the Incarnation, Irving, TX Saint of the Day: St. Stanislaus, Bishop and Martyr On This Day in Catholic History 1079 - Bishop Stanislaus of Krakow is executed by order of Bolesław II of Poland. 1963 -- Pope John XXIII put forth his encyclical "On peace in truth, justice, charity and liberty." 1997 -- In Italy, fire damaged the 500-year-old San Giovanni Cathedral, home of the Shroud of Turin, which some consider Christ's burial cloth. 2004 -- Pope John Paul II celebrated Easter Mass with calls for world leaders to resolve conflicts in Iraq, the Holy Land and Africa. Famous Birthday: 1928 -- age 80 -- Ethel Kennedy , widow of the late Robert Kennedy. Born in Chicago, Illinois to Ann Brannack, a Roman Catholic , and George Skakel, a Protestant , Ethel was raised Catholic in Greenwich, Connecticut .

Twenty-Ninth Sunday of Ordinary Time Today's Mass Readings A Personal Reflection and Witness on Today's Readings On This Day in Catholic History: The feast day of St. Viator and St. Ursula Birthdays: 1527- Louis I, Cardinal of Guise , French cardinal (d. 1578) 1581 - Domenico Zampieri , Italian painter (d. 1641) 1775 - Giuseppe Baini , Italian composer (d. 1844) 1833 - Alfred Nobel , Swedish inventor and founder of the Nobel Prize (d. 1896) 1847 - Giuseppe Giacosa , Italian writer (d. 1906) 1895 - Edna Purviance , American actress (d. 1958) 1907 - Jules Chevalier , French priest (b. 1824) 1924 - Joyce Randolph , American actress 1928 - Whitey Ford , American baseball player 1940 - Manfred Mann , English musician 1943 - Brian Piccolo , American football player (d. 1970) 1956 - Carrie Fisher, American actress and writer,(Princess Leia in Star Wars) 1978 - Will Estes , American actor,( JJ Pryor , on the NBC drama American Dreams .) Image Source

Happy Chrysanthemums by Michaels Photos Wednesday of the Twenty-Seventh Week of Ordinary Time Old Calendar: St. Francis Borgia, Confessor Today's Mass Readings Birthdays: 1731 - Henry Cavendish , British scientist (d. 1810) 1813 - Giuseppe Verdi , Catholic, Italian operatic composer (d. 1901) 1863 - Louis Cyr , French Canadian strongman (d. 1912) 1898 - Lilly Daché , French-born milliner (d. 1989) 1900 - Helen Hayes , American actress, Catholic, Republican, "First Lady of the American Theater", and was one of the nine people who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award; Hayes' Irish Catholic maternal grandparents immigrated from Ireland during the Irish Potato Famine. 1914 - Tommy Fine , American baseball player, an American pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Boston Red Sox (1947) and St. Louis Browns (1950), (d. 2005) 1924 - James Clavell , Australian British author, novelist, screenwriter, director; World War II hero and POW, The Great...

The Good Samaritan Wednesday of the Twenty-Six Week of Ordinary Time Today's Mass Readings On This Day in Catholic History: 1226 St. Francis of Assisi died. Birthdays: 1716 - Giovanni Battista Beccaria , Italian physicist (d. 1781) 1802 - John Gorrie , American scientist (d. 1855) 1898 - Leo McCarey , American film director, (The Bells of St. Mary's, Going My Way) (d. 1969) 1928 - Alvin Toffler , American writer and futurist 1941 - Chubby Checker , American musician 1973 - Christine Keiko Agena , American actress 1981 - Matt Murton , American baseball player

Today's Liturgy: Feast of St. Bartholomew, Apostle Today's Mass Readings: On This Day in Catholic History: 1215 - Pope Innocent III declares the Magna Carta invalid. 1964 - The first Roman Catholic Mass conducted completely in English was celebrated in Saint Louis, Missouri, in Kiel Auditorium. The celebrant was Father Frederick Richard McManus of the Catholic University of America. Birthdays: 1759 - William Wilberforce , English abolitionist (d. 1833) (Amazing Grace) 1895 - Richard Cardinal Cushing , archbishop of Boston (d. 1970) 1934 - Kenny Baker , English actor ( R2-D2 in Star Wars ) 1955 - Mike Huckabee, former governor of the U.S. state of Arkansas, Baptist Minister, and Presidential candidate for 2008 U.S. election.