| 31 Thursday | |
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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„Ÿ.1); John 17:1-2, 9, 14-26.
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| Hours of the feast. Te Deum. | |
| Anniversary: | 97th anniversary of the death of P. Xolile Keteyi (41) d. 1994 at Pietermaritzburg, RSA.  |
| Anniversary: | 85th anniversary of the death of P. Claudio Rossi (61) d. 2006 at Palestrina, Italy. |
| Birthday: | 111th birthday of P. Nicholas HAMAKALU (born this day in 1980). |
| Birthday: | 139th birthday of P. Stephen BUCKLAND (born this day in 1952). |
| SJ NOTE: | Monthly Mass for the needs of the Church and the Society should be offered on May 31. | |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 1653 | Publication of the bull of Pope Innocent X declaring that Five Heretical Propositions were really contained in Jansenius' Augustinus. The Jansenists retaliated by violent calumnies against the Society. |
| 1823 | Twelve Belgian Jesuits, including Fr. Van Quickenborne, superior, Peter De Smet, and Peter Verhaegen arrive in the St. Louis area by flatboat down the Ohio River and then a 120 mile walk across Illinois. They celebrate the feast of Corpus Christ the next day at the Cathedral. The mission begins. |
| 1900 | The new novitiate of the Buffalo Mission, St. Stanislaus in South Brooklyn, Ohio, near Cleveland, is blessed. |
| 1992 | The canonization of Claude de la Colombiere by Pope John Paul II, 63 years after he was beatiï¬ed by Pius XI. |
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