[374] Gen 16:1-12, 15-16 or Gen 16:16b-12, 15-16;Ps 106: 1b-2, 3-4a, 4b-5; Matt 7:21-29.
Hours of the day.
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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Gen 22:9-18 or Heb 10:4-10; Ps 40 (39):7-8a, 10-11ab, 17 (℟. 8a, 9a); Matt 26:36-42. Download the texts
Hours of the feast. Te Deum.
Anniversary:
150th anniversary of the death of F. Manuel Lourenço FernáNdez (71) d. 1945 at Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil.
Anniversary:
115th anniversary of the death of P. Bernard D'Adhémar (75) d. 1980 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
Anniversary:
101st anniversary of the death of P. Leonard Kennedy (84) d. 1994 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1546
At Rome the papal postmaster, enraged by the admission of his mistress into the Casa Santa Maria, a refuge founded by St. Ignatius, raised a great storm against the Society.
1608
The martyrdom in London, England, of Thomas Garnet.
1623
In Paraguay died Father John Vasee, a Fleming. Being a skilled violinist, and having taught the Indian children to sing, he drew crowds of savages to him by the double charm of his music and virtues.
1704
Decree dated this day, of Tournon, the Papal Legate, opposes the Chinese Rites, and sets back inculturation. The Jesuits were informed of it on July 8th and were dismayed.
1773
At Bologna Cardinal Malvezzi, anticipating the Suppression, tried to force the scholastics to take off the religious habit.
1932
The Society of Jesus is banished and property seized in Spain.
1967
Saint Louis University’s Board of Trustees gather for the first meeting of the expanded Board. SLU was the first Catholic University to establish a Board of Trustees with a majority of lay members.
