[356] 2 Tim 2:8-15;Ps 25:2-5ab, 8-9, 10+14; Mark 12:28-34.
Hours of the day.
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Sts Marcellinus and Peter, martyrs Common of Martyrs Readings from the Common of Saints: [575] 2 Cor 6:4-10 (#716.4); Ps 124:2-3, 4-5, 7b-8 (#715.3); John 17:11b-19 (#718.7).
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Archdioceses of Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg, South Africa [SACBC]
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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 was celebrated last Thursday, on the Thursday after Pentecost, to mark an octave before Corpus Christi, but since Corpus Christi is transferred to this coming Sunday, in SACBC territories only, the feast is moved a week later, to the Thursday after the Most Holy Trinity, to commence a triduum leading to Corpus Christi. In non-SACBC territories, the Feria from Ordinary Time should be used as above.]
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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:
180th anniversary of the death of F. Alphonse Kury (35) d. 1898 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
81st anniversary of the death of P. Kenneth Nixon (78) d. 1997 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
Anniversary:
53rd anniversary of the death of -P. Paul Brassil (SAP) (91) d. 2025 at Dublin, Ireland.
Birthday:
98th birthday of P. Grant TUNGAY (born this day in 1980).
Birthday:
140th birthday of E. Dieter SCHOLZ (born this day in 1938).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
St. Mary Anne de Parades (1618-45) the lily of Quito, Ecuador. Her feast is in the Jesuit martyrology. She was directed by Jesuits.
1810
At Rome, Fr. Joseph Pignatelli, fearing the suppression of his community at S. Pantaleo, bade them no longer address each other as Father, Brother, or use the words provincial, Rector, and told the brothers to wear secular dress.
1930
45 novices move from St. Andrew on Hudson, NY to Wernersville.
1987
Anthony De Mello, S.J. dies in New York City. He was a spiritual writer and noted lecturer, on prayer, with insights from the spirituality of the East. In 1998, the Vatican issued a warning about some of his writings. He founded the Sadhana Institute in India.
