[368] Sir 48:1-14;Ps 97:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7; Matt 6:7-15.
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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Gen 22:9-18 or Heb 10:4-10; Ps 40 (39):7-8a, 10-11ab, 17 (â„Ÿ. 8a, 9a); Matt 26:36-42. Download the texts
Hours of the feast. Te Deum.
Anniversary:
79th anniversary of the death of F. John Buskens (79) d. 1959 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Birthday:
37th birthday of S. Eliezer Chitoshi CHONGO (born this day in 2001).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1537
At Venice, St. Ignatius and his Companions were ordained deacons. 1558. The First General Congregation is convened.
1537
Ignatius and his companions received minor orders at the house of Bishop Vincenzo Negusanti in Venice, Italy.
1581
Church of St. Mary's, Oxford, Commencement Day. The pamphlet of Edmund Campion, Ten Reasons appears and it is his call to debate. But he will be martyred in less than one year.
1673
Marquette and Joliet are the first Europeans to see the upper Mississippi River. Marquette writes: "We entered the Mississippi with a joy I am unable to express." He names it the River of the Immaculate Conception. He saw it at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin.
1700
A new, stricter law against the Jesuits is passed in Massachusetts.
