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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 A | Gen 22:9-18 or Heb 10:4-10; Ps 40 (39):7-8a, 10-11ab, 17 (℟. 8a, 9a); Matt 26:36-42.
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| Hours of the feast. Te Deum. | |
| Anniversary: | 96th anniversary of the death of F. Henry Mercer (76) d. 1963 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.  |
| Anniversary: | 57th anniversary of the death of P. Cedric Myerscough (76) d. 2002 at Cape Town, RSA. |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 1569 | At Rome the Society was installed by Pope St. Pius V in the College of Penitentiaries, fathers of different nationalities there resident being Required to act as confessors in St. Peter’s. At the Suppression, Clement XIV replaced the Jesuits by Conventuals. |
| 1611 | Pierre Biard and Ennemond Masse are the first Jesuits to set foot in New France, Arcadia. |
| 1617 | At Nagasaki the glorious martyrdom of Blessed John Baptist Machado, beheaded for the faith. On hearing his death sentence, he sang the Te Deum. |
| 1965 | Pedro Arrupe was elected the 28th superior general of the Society of Jesus in GC31 |
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