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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 A | [167] Deut 8:2-3, 14b-16a; Ps 147:12-13, 14-15, 19-20; 1 Cor 10:16-17; John 6:51-58. |
| Hours of the Solemnity. Te Deum. | |
Anniversary: | 182nd anniversary of the death of P. John Vollers (46) d. 1907 at Canaries, Spain. |
Anniversary: | 105th anniversary of the death of P. Michael Moloney (71) d. 1984 at Dublin, Ireland. |
Birthday: | 96th birthday of S. BenĂcio Arlindo CHICOMO (born this day in 1993). |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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1564 | At Lima died Francis Lopez, who had resigned the high office of Visitor General of the Kingdom of Peru to become a lay Brother in the Society. |
1564 | Pius IV, hearing that his nephew St. Charles Borromeo felt drawn to the Society, forbad Lainez and Ribadenairs to enter the Apostolic Palace. |
1960 | The Vatican Secretariat for Christian Unity is established. Cardinal Bea is the first President, from 1960 to his death in 1968. |
1986 | John Mahoney is named professor of moral theology in King’s College, the University of London, the first Catholic priest to hold that chair. |
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