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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. | |
| Anniversary: | 41st anniversary of the death of P. John Doyle (84) d. 2015 at Pickering, ON, Canada.  |
| Birthday: | 68th birthday of P. Frank Fanie TARUWONA (born this day in 1988). |
| Birthday: | 88th birthday of P. Nathanael MITI (born this day in 1968). |
| Birthday: | 64th birthday of S. Paul KANDA (born this day in 1992). |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 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. |
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