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.]
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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. Download the texts
Hours of the feast. Te Deum.
Anniversary:
144th anniversary of the death of F. Kilian Heim (47) d. 1941 at Triashill, Chishawasha, S Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
129th anniversary of the death of P. John Withnell (82) d. 1956 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
122nd anniversary of the death of F. Michael O'Toole (64) d. 1963 at Harlaxton, Lincs, England.
Anniversary:
113th anniversary of the death of F. Joseph Duda (76) d. 1972 at Lusaka, Zambia.
Birthday:
101st birthday of P. Clemence MUTIMUTEMA (born this day in 1984).
Birthday:
85th birthday of NS. Modesto Númeri N. BISSUASSE (born this day in 2000).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1556
Peter Canisius is appointed Provincial of Upper Germany, as the Province is constituted. A few days earlier, the province of Lower Germany was erected.
1569
Three ships, with 60 Jesuits aboard, leave Portugal for Brazil. But not one Jesuit will reach Brazil.
1661
The 11th General Congregation elects Oliva as perpetual Vicar General with right of succession and "sole right" of General, due to the state of health of Fr. General Nickel, aged 80 years.
1758
The Cardinal Patriarch of Lisbon, who loved the Society, was forced by Pombal to suspend all the Jesuits in his patriarchate. He died of grief within a month.
1886
Father Camillus Mazzella was promoted to the Cardinalate by Leo XIII. He had been the first Dean of Woodstock College. He was Professor of theology and would chair the commission that declared Anglican orders invalid, a report accepted by Leo XIII.
1952
The formal dedication of Gonzaga Retreat House for youth in Monroe, NY. It had been started sometime earlier.
1962
Karl Rahner is silenced in a manner, by Father General: preliminary censorship. This would last for about one year.
2000
George Ganss, S.J. dies, age 94. Director, founder of the Institute of Jesuit Sources, and translated the Constitutions.
