This Day in Province History: September 6, 1896
On this Sunday, in 1896, there began a Solemn Triduum to celebrate the Centennial Anniversary of the Province’s first foundation, St. Augustine Church, in Philadelphia. The days of celebration would include the consecration of a new altar by the Bishop of Ogdensburg, New York, and a Solemn Mass offered by Archbishop Patrick Ryan of Philadelphia.
Twenty-third Sunday of Ordinary Time – Year B
Having recently returned to the Gospel of St. Mark, after several weeks of hearing St. John’s discourse on the Eucharist, we discovered in last week’s Gospel that Jesus is attempting to open our minds and hearts both to what defiles us from within and also defines us as children of God. If we were to take last week’s Gospel at face value, we might find ourselves quite depressed over the listing of vices that can come forth from within each of us; vices that arequite prevalent in the very world that we live in.
