21st Day of Prayer for the Church in China (est. 2008)
Mass of the day.
Cycle I
[344] Sir 5:1-8;Ps 1:1-2, 3, 4+6; Mark 9:41-50.
Hours of the day.
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Our Lady of the Way [SJ] Texts in the Jesuit Supplement (Download here) Proper (Preface: The Motherhood of the Blessed Virgin Mary) Readings from the Common of Saints: During Easter Time: Heb 10:19-25, or Outside Easter Time: Prov 4:10-18, Ps 119 (118):1-2, 12+14, 36-37, 41-42, Luke 2:15b-19
Optional
Outside the Archdioceses of Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg [i.e. all non-SACBC territories]
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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 is celebrated on the Thursday after Pentecost, except for SACBC territories which will celebrate it next Thursday. In SACBC territories, the Feria from Ordinary Time should be used as above, or the optional Memorial below can be used.]
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. Download the texts
Hours of the feast. Te Deum.
Archdioceses of Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg, South Africa [SACBC]
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The Blessed Virgin Mary, Help of Christians
Memorial
Common of the Blessed Virgin Mary
[RM]
Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture Bl. Johanna, wife of Chuza, disciple (cf. Lk. 8:1b-3) [from the Roman Martyrology].
[RM]
Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Manaen, prophet in Antioch (cf. Acts 13:1) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:
114th anniversary of the death of F. Martin Meyringer (81) d. 1915 at Diest, Belgium.
Anniversary:
98th anniversary of the death of F. Thomas Segura (77) d. 1931 at S. Salvador da Baía, Brasil.
Anniversary:
73rd anniversary of the death of F. William Blackledge (56) d. 1956 at Petworth, W. Sussex, England.
Anniversary:
29th anniversary of the death of P. Donal McKenna (67) d. 2000 at Limbe, Malawi.
Anniversary:
25th anniversary of the death of P. Bertold Beck (GER) (84) d. 2004 at Köln, Germany.
Birthday:
66th birthday of +P. Dhanapalan RAYAR (born this day in 1963).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
Madonna della Strada. Feast of Our Lady of the Way.
Our Lady of the Way (Optional Memorial)
Our Lady of the Way (Madonna della Strada) was the name given by the first Jesuits to a late 13th century Byzantine fresco in a way-side chapel by the same name, in Rome. In 1540, Ignatius of Loyola and his companions occupied a house directly across from the chapel. The chapel, together with the residence, was for many years the “heart of the Society of Jesus”. It witnessed the contemplative life and corporate ministries of the early Jesuits. The icon, revered down the ages, is placed prominently in the magnificent Madonna Chapel in the Gesù, the mother-church of the Society of Jesus, in Rome, built over the original site. Our Lady of the Way is Patroness of the Society of Jesus.
1551
St. Francis Borgia is ordained a priest. He said his first Mass on August lst.
1716
The beatification of John Francis Regis by Pope Clement XI.
1814
Pope Pius VII returns to Rome from exile. He declared his intention to restore the Society on the coming feast of St. Ignatius.
1834
Expulsion of the Society from Brazil by Don Pedro IV.
2002
Gerard Gilleman, S.J. dies. Missionary to India, he wrote The Primacy of Charity in Moral Theology, a breakthrough volume.
2014
Letter of Fr. General On Jesuits in the Intellectual Apostolate.
2015
Encyclical of Pope Francis on the environment, Laudato Si.
