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| white | Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Eternal High Priest | Feast |
| Mass of the feast. Gloria, Preface of the priesthood of Christ and of the Church | |
| Yr C | Isa 6:1-4,8 or Heb 2:10-18; Ps 23 (22):2-3, 5, 6 (℟.1); John 17:1-2, 9, 14-26.
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| Hours of the feast. Te Deum. | |
| [RM] | Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Amos, prophet (cf. Am. 7:15) [from the Roman Martyrology]. |
| Anniversary: | 141st anniversary of the death of P. António Nunes (69) d. 1938 at Baía, Brazil.  |
| Anniversary: | 120th anniversary of the death of P. Harold Burrows (82) d. 1959 at St Beuno's, Tremeirchion, N Wales. |
| Birthday: | 116th birthday of P. Carlos Mário SIVANO (born this day in 1963). |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 1564 | Francis Suarez entered the Novitiate, after experiencing many difficulties, having been twice rejected by the examiner on the score of feeble health and apparently insufficient talent. |
| 1572 | The Mexican Province is established. |
| 1871 | A female law student, P.W. Couzins, graduates from St. Louis University Law School, the first law school in the country to admit women. |
| 1876 | Cardinal Franzelin was raised to the purple. 1888. Martin Darcy, S.J. is born. |
| 1927 | Leonce de Grandmaison,S.J. dies Apologist, defender against Modernism. Editor of Etudes, 1908-27. He wrote a well-known life of Christ. |
| 1956 | The first television presentation of the Sacred Heart program appears on KTVI in St. Louis. |
| 1994 | James Dempske dies. President of Canisius College, he had been novice director and played the trumpet. |
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