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Sts Timothy and Titus, bishops
Memorial
Mass of the saint; preface of the weekday, or of the saint.
[318] Heb 10:1-10;Ps 40:2+4ab, 7-8a, 10, 11; Mark 3:31-35.
Common of Pastors, except PROPER 1st Reading: (Readings from the Common of Saints: [520] 2 Tim 1:1-8 or Titus 1:1-5; Ps 96:1-2a, 2b-3, 7-8a, 10 (#721.5); Luke 10:1-9 (#724.8).) Hours of the Memorial.
Prop. Ants. Bened. & Magn.
[RM]
Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Timothy and Titus (cf. Acts 16:1-3, 2 Cor. 7:5-6) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:
131st anniversary of the death of P. George Fraser (31) d. 1890 at Keilands, RSA.
Anniversary:
56th anniversary of the death of P. Philip Prime (54) d. 1965 at Port Elizabeth, RSA.
Anniversary:
38th anniversary of the death of P. Thomas Crehan (79) d. 1983 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
Anniversary:
37th anniversary of the death of P. Dunstan Myerscough (72) d. 1984 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
14th anniversary of the death of P. Karl-Ferdinand Schmidt (78) d. 2007 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1611
The first Jesuit missionaries sail from Europe to New France, Canada. 1616. Close of the Seventh General Congregation. One of its enactments was to refuse support (alimenta) to members dismissed from the Society.
1758
In France the Duke de Choiseul is made Prime Minister. The Lavalette affair supplied the opportunity he sought to ruin the Society.
1975
The death of Josef Jungmann, whose studies of liturgical history contributed to the reform of the liturgy.
