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| white | St Benedict, abbot | Mass of the memorial; preface of the weekday, or of the saint. | | | Cycle II | [386] Hos 11:1-4, 8e-9; Ps 80:2ac+3b, 15-16; Matt 10:7-15. | | Hours of the Memorial.
Common of Holy Men and Women: For Religious
Readings from the Common of Saints: [597] Prov 2:1-9; Ps 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9, 10-11 (#739.5); Matt 19:27-29 (#742.9). | |
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| Anniversary: | 43rd anniversary of the death of P. Rudolph Kensy (72) d. 1981 at Marburg, Germany.  |
| Anniversary: | 27th anniversary of the death of F. Dennis Adamson (50) d. 1997 at Harare, Zimbabwe. |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 1534 | Peter Faber, ordained on May 30th, offers his first Mass on this day. 1567. Claudio Acquaviva enters the Society. He will be General under 8 popes. 1580. The First Communion of St. Aloysius from the hands of St. Charles Borromeo. |
| 1544 | At King John III of Portugal’s request, Peter Faber left Cologne for Lisbon. He writes that he takes with him relics, twelve heads of the 11,000 martyrs buried in Cologne. He distributed these as he travels to Portugal. |
| 1556 | Ignatius, gravely ill, handed over the daily governance of the Society to Juan de Polanco and Cristóbal de Madrid. |
| 1742 | Pope Benedict XIV ended the controversy between Jesuits and other religious orders over the Chinese and Malabar Rites by forbidding the Jesuits to continue the liturgical practices they had long used in China. |
| 1807 | In London died Father Thomas Lawson, probably the first to spread devotion to the Sacred Heart widely throughout England |
| 1981 | John McMahon, S.J. dies Provincial, Tertian Instructor of the New York Province. Official Visitor to Ireland. |
| 2018 | Fr. General Sosa announces the beginning of the process of canonization of Fr. Pedro Arrupe. |
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