| 21 Monday | |
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| white | The Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church | Memorial |
| Mass of the Memorial (Votive Mass
#10B) | |
| These readings are proper to the
memorial.
cf. [572A] Gen 3: 9-15, 20 or Acts 1: 12-14; Ps 86:
1-2, 3 & 5, 5-7; Jn 19: 25-34 | |
| Hours of the memorial (From Votive Masses: 10. Blessed Virgin Mary, B. Our Lady, Mother of the Church.) |
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| | Seasonal weekday readings: |
| | [341] Jas 3:13-18; Ps 19:8, 9, 10, 15; Mark 9:14-29. |
| Anniversary: | 118th anniversary of the death of P. Edward Parry (60) d. 1922 at Katondwe, N. Rhodesia.  |
| Anniversary: | 112th anniversary of the death of P. Francis Richartz (73) d. 1928 at Salisbury, Rhodesia. |
| Anniversary: | 66th anniversary of the death of P. Thomas Warrington (73) d. 1974 at Salisbury, Rhodesia. |
| Anniversary: | 58th anniversary of the death of P. David Murphy (HIB) (38) d. 1982 at Dublin, Ireland. |
| Anniversary: | 56th anniversary of the death of P. Stanislaw Nowicki (73) d. 1984 at Lusaka, Zambia. |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 1568 | Pope St. Pius V wrote a letter to the Archbishop of Cologne asking him to befriend the Society of Jesus and its college in that city. |
| 1758 | Laurence Ricci is elected General. He was chosen to guide the Society through a sea of storms. He will die in 1775 after imprisonment in Castel S. Angelo. |
| 1925 | Pius XI canonizes Peter Canisius, with Teresa of the Child Jesus and Mary Madeleine Postal, Madeleine Sophie Barat, John Vianney, and John Eudes. Canisius is declared a Doctor of the Church. |
| 2003 | The death of Victor Mertens, S.J. age 90. He had been Vice-Provincial and Provincial of Central Africa, Counselor to Fr. General and Assistant for Africa from 1971-80. |
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