St Bede the Venerable, priest and doctor of the Church Common of Pastors, or Common of Doctors of the Church Readings from the Common of Saints: [567] 1 Cor 2:10b-16 (#728.3); Ps 119:9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 (#727.3); Matt 7:21-29 (#730.2).
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St Gregory VII, pope Common of Pastors: For a Pope Readings from the Common of Saints: [568] Acts 20:17-18a. 28-32, 36 (#720.2); Ps 110:1, 2, 3, 4 (#721.7); Matt 16:13-19 (#724.2).
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St Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi, virgin Common of Virgins, or Common of Holy Men and Women: For Religious Readings from the Common of Saints: [569] 1 Cor 7:25-35 (#734.1); Ps 148:1-2, 11-13, 13-14 (#733.2); Mark 3:31-35 (#742.14).
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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.]
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Jer 31:31-34 or Heb 10:11-18; Ps 110 (109):1b-e, 2, 3 (â„Ÿ. 4b); Mark 14:22-25. Download the texts
Hours of the feast. Te Deum.
Anniversary:
36th anniversary of the death of P. John Doyle (84) d. 2015 at Pickering, ON, Canada.
Birthday:
63rd birthday of P. Frank Fanie TARUWONA (born this day in 1988).
Birthday:
83rd birthday of P. Nathanael MITI (born this day in 1968).
Birthday:
59th birthday of P. Paul KANDA (born this day in 1992).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1537
St. Francis Borgia was converted from the vanities of the world by the sight of Empress Isabella’s corpse.
1590
In Japan died Father Gaspar Coelho, a renowed missioner, who with only one companion, converted 35,000 persons and sixty Bonzes to the Church.
1621
St. John Berchmans offered to God l00 acts of self-humiliation in honor of St. Aloysius.
1773
The scholastics at Bologna, Italy, pressed immediately before the suppression by Cardinal Malvezzi to take off their religious habit and accept dispensation from their vows, refused to listen to him.
1773
The Scholastics at Bologna, pressed by Cardinal Malvezzi to take off their Religious habit and accept dispensation from their vows, refused to listen to him.
1802
The death of John Carroll, member of the Society before the Suppression, founder of Georgetown University and as first bishop of Baltimore, the founder of the U.S. hierarchy.
1879
St. Patrick's Cathedral in NYC is consecrated. The property had been purchased by Anton Kohlmann, S.J.
1989
Philip Carey, S.J. dies Labor priest, mediator, of the Labor Relations Institute at Xavier Parish in New York City.
