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| green | Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time | |
| 81st World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly (est. 2021) |
| Mass of the Sunday; gloria, creed. |
| Yr A | [109] 1 Kgs 3:5, 7-12; Ps 119:57+72, 76-77, 127-128, 129-130; Rom 8:28-30; Matt 13:44-52 or 13:44-46.
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| | Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum.
Week 1 of the Psalter. | |
| [RM] | Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture the Three magi (cf. Mt. 2:10-11) [from the Roman Martyrology]. |
| Anniversary: | 211th anniversary of the death of P. Alfred Weld (67) d. 1890 at Grahamstown, RSA.  |
| Anniversary: | 180th anniversary of the death of F. Peter Schafer (40) d. 1921 at Grahamstown, RSA. |
| Anniversary: | 103rd anniversary of the death of P. Frederick Moriarty (64) d. 1998 at Dublin, Ireland. |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 1575 | In Rome Fr. Robert Parsons enters the Society. |
| 1804 | Maryland, Fr. Robert Molyneux is appointed First Superior by Fr. General Gruber. |
| 1861 | The purchase of the Roehampton property by the Society. The owners thought they were selling it to the Queen as a residence for the Prince of Wales. |
| 1936 | The death of S.G. Braulio MartÃnez and Lawrence Isla, martyrs of the Spanish Civil War. |
| 1950 | John Birkmeyer, N.S.J. dies Novice drowns at St. Andrew on Hudson, New York in the Hudson River. |
| 1977 | George Glanzman, S.J. Scripture scholar dies. |
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