Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: That everyone might have food. (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that everyone, from large producers to small consumers, be committed to avoid wasting food, and to ensure that everyone has access to quality food."
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28 Thursday
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Thursday of the eighth week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle II
[350] 1 Pet 2:2-5, 9-12;Ps 100:2, 3, 4, 5; Mark 10:46-52.
Hours of the day.
Outside the Archdioceses of Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg [i.e. all non-SACBC territories]
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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 is celebrated on the Thursday after Pentecost, except for SACBC territories which will celebrate it next Thursday. In SACBC territories, the Feria from Ordinary Time should be used as above, or the optional Memorial below can be used.]
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. Download the texts
Hours of the feast. Te Deum.
Anniversary:
111th anniversary of the death of P. Kenelm Digby-Beste (39) d. 1915 at Bulawayo, BSA Co..
Anniversary:
36th anniversary of the death of P. Maximilian Prokoph (80) d. 1990 at Johannesburg, RSA.
Anniversary:
4th anniversary of the death of P. Andrews Thekkekara (MDU) (90) d. 2022 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
Birthday:
54th birthday of P. Kapyunga Boyd Christopher NYIRENDA (born this day in 1972).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1537
Francis Borgia converted from the vanities of the world by the sight of Empress Isabella’s corpse.
1547
Letter of St. Ignatius on zeal and religious perfection.
1600
Father Matthew Ricci, undismayed by the failure of his first visit to Peking, set out again from Nanking with many rich presents for the Emperor, of which he was robbed on the way.
1634
Ven. Father Thomas Holland, martyr, took the vows of a Spiritual Coadjutor. He is said to have heroically swallowed a spider that fell into the chalice during Mass. He is now a saint.
1648
At Murcia in Spain died Fr. Andre Salvatierra, famous mission in California. On several occasions he won a hearing for the Gospel by first playing on the lute for the native peoples.
1881
Cardinal Bea, is born.
1962
The death of Bernard Hubbard, S.J., in Santa Clara, California. He is the author of the book Mush, You Malemutes! and articles in the Saturday Evening Post on the Alaska mission. "The Glacier Priest" – for climbing the Austrian Alps!
1981
The death of Mary Lou Williams, jazz pianist. Convert to Catholicism, she wrote jazz Masses. Jesuits assisted her and one acted as her musical agent.
1987
Hugh Costigan, S.J. dies. Missionary to Micronesia.
