[350] Sir 42:15-25;Ps 33:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9; Mark 10:46-52.
Hours of the day.
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St Augustine of Canterbury, bishop Common of Pastors: For Missionaries Readings from the Common of Saints: [571] 1 Thess 2:2b-8 (#722.10); Ps 96:1-2a, 2b-3, 7-8a, 10 (#721.5); Matt 9:35-38 (#724.1).
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Archdioceses of Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg, South Africa [SACBC]
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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 was celebrated last Thursday, on the Thursday after Pentecost, to mark an octave before Corpus Christi, but since Corpus Christi is transferred to this coming Sunday, in SACBC territories only, the feast is moved a week later, to the Thursday after the Most Holy Trinity, to commence a triduum leading to Corpus Christi. In non-SACBC territories, the Feria from Ordinary Time should be used as above.]
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Jer 31:31-34 or Heb 10:11-18; Ps 110 (109):1b-e, 2, 3 (â„ź. 4b); Mark 14:22-25. Download the texts
Hours of the feast. Te Deum.
Anniversary:
133rd anniversary of the death of P. Adolph Bontemps (36) d. 1894 at Swartfontein, RSA.
Anniversary:
56th anniversary of the death of P. James Wallace (55) d. 1971 at Inyanga, Republic of Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
45th anniversary of the death of P. Wiliam Butler (70) d. 1982 at Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, England.
Anniversary:
26th anniversary of the death of P. Michael Ross (85) d. 2001 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
Jubilee:
Tin Jubilee of P. Peter BANDA who celebrates 10 years of Priesthood today.
Jubilee:
Tin Jubilee of P. Mwamba D. MUTALE who celebrates 10 years of Priesthood today.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1547
Pope Paul III acceded to the request that the Society of Jesus not have women as members nor have a parallel women’s order.
1702
Fr. Dominique Bouhours, literary critic and author of lives of St. Ignatius and St. Francis Xavier, died at Paris. The poet John Dryden translated the latter into English after his conversion.
Francis LeBuffe, S.J. dies. Author, Spiritual writer, lawyer, Sodalist, philosopher, anthropologist. From the New York Province, he died on Ascension Thursday.
1971
Bernard Leeming, S.J. dies. Theologian and ecumenist, he attended Xavier High School in New York.
1974
Herbert Musurillo, S.J. dies Classicist, patristic scholar.
