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| white | The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi) | Solemnity |
| Mass of the Solemnity; Gloria, sequence optional, creed, Preface of Holy Eucharist I or II. | |
| Yr C | [169] Gen 14:18-20; Ps 110:1, 2, 3, 4; 1 Cor 11:23-26; Luke 9:11-17. |
| Hours of the Solemnity. Te Deum. | |
| Anniversary: | 152nd anniversary of the death of P. Adolph Bontemps (36) d. 1894 at Swartfontein, RSA.  |
| Anniversary: | 75th anniversary of the death of P. James Wallace (55) d. 1971 at Inyanga, Republic of Rhodesia. |
| Anniversary: | 64th anniversary of the death of P. Wiliam Butler (70) d. 1982 at Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, England. |
| Anniversary: | 45th anniversary of the death of P. Michael Ross (85) d. 2001 at Harare, Zimbabwe. |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 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. |
| 1930 | The death of JosĂ© MarĂa AlguĂ©, one of the great meteorologists in the history of the world. He invented a machine to measure barometric pressure that saved many lives in the Far East. |
| 1954 | 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. |
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