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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 (â„Ÿ. 8a, 9a); Matt 26:36-42.
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| Hours of the feast. Te Deum. | |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 1543 | Peter Canisius is accepted as a novice by Peter Faber. Canisius is ordained three years later. |
| 1555 | At Rome the election Cadrdinal Gian Paolo Caraffa as Pope Paul IV. Overall he was favorable, but he would impose choir. Ignatian remarked to his friends that "every bone in my body was shaking." |
| 1717 | The Christian Religion was proscribed throughout China soon after the condemnation of the Chinese Rites by Clement XI. |
| 1874 | The death in St. Louis, Missouri, of Peter De Smet, intrepid Belgian missionary, who founded the Rocky Mountain Missions in the western United States and crossed the Atlantic 19 times in search of economic resources and vocations to staff the growing church. |
| 1876 | Fr. De Buck, S.J. dies. He was important in the revival of the Bollandists. |
| 1940 | Emile Mersch. S.J. is killed by bomb as he was bringing relief to wounded volunteers, on the feast of Corpus Christi. He left an unfinished manuscript on the Theology of the Mystical Body. |
| 1976 | Br. Nicholas de Glos, S.J. diocesan inspector of schools, is stabbed to death in Chad, age 65. |
| 1992 | Pierre LeRoy, S.J. dies. He was a close friend, correspondent, and defender of Teilhard de Chardin. |
| 1993 | The blessing of the new pipe organ, made in England, at St. Ignatius Loyola Church, New York. |
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