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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 C | Isa 6:1-4,8 or Heb 2:10-18; Ps 23 (22):2-3, 5, 6 (â„ź.1); John 17:1-2, 9, 14-26.
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| Hours of the feast. Te Deum. | |
| Anniversary: | 200th anniversary of the death of P. Adolph Bontemps (36) d. 1894 at Swartfontein, RSA.  |
| Anniversary: | 123rd anniversary of the death of P. James Wallace (55) d. 1971 at Inyanga, Republic of Rhodesia. |
| Anniversary: | 112th anniversary of the death of P. Wiliam Butler (70) d. 1982 at Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, England. |
| Anniversary: | 93rd 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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