[362] 1 Kgs 18:41-46;Ps 65:10, 11, 12-13; Matt 5:20-26.
Hours of the day.
Outside the Archdioceses of Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg [i.e. all non-SACBC territories]
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Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Eternal High Priest
Feast
Mass of the feast. Gloria, Preface of the priesthood of Christ and of the Church. [In the Universal Calendar, this feast is celebrated on the Thursday after Pentecost, except for SACBC territories which will celebrate it next Thursday. In SACBC territories, the Feria from Ordinary Time should be used as above, or the optional Memorial below can be used.]
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Jer 31:31-34 or Heb 10:11-18; Ps 110 (109):1b-e, 2, 3 (â„Ÿ. 4b); Mark 14:22-25. Download the texts
Hours of the feast. Te Deum.
Anniversary:
49th anniversary of the death of P. Anthony Berridge (60) d. 2011 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1546
Peter Canisius is ordained, age 25. He has been a Jesuit for three years.
1769
Clement XIV, the newly-elected Pope began to show coldness towards the Society.
1836
Ampere, Andre-Marie dies in Marseille. He was a Jesuit Alumnus in the time of the suppression. He was born Jan. 20, 1775 in Lyon. A physicist, he founded and named the science of electrodynamics as Electromagnetism.
1933
Charles Simons, of the California Province, is the first Jesuit ordained in China.
2008
Norrie Clarke, S.J. dies, age 93. Philosopher, writer, Fordham University. Founder of the International Philosophical Quarterly.
