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| green | Tuesday of the twenty-seventh week. | |
| Mass of the day. |
| Cycle I | [462] Jonah 3:1-10;
Ps 130:1b-2, 3-4ab, 7-8; Luke 10:38-42.
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| | Hours of the day. |
| [RM] | Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Shemaiah, prophet (cf. 1 Kgs 12:22) [from the Roman Martyrology]. |
| Anniversary: | 52nd anniversary of the death of P. Bart Watson (72) d. 1989 at London, England.  |
| Anniversary: | 32nd anniversary of the death of P. Lawrence Tomazin (79) d. 2009 at Lusaka, Zambia. |
| Birthday: | 44th birthday of S. Moniz Fernando REIS (born this day in 1997). |
| Jubilee: | Emerald Jubilee of P. Andrzej LEÅšNIARA who celebrates 55 years in the Society today. |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 1834 | Arrival at Calcutta of Fathers from England, sent at Gregory XVI’s desire. |
| 1871 | The Chicago Fire. The city is destroyed, but it misses the Jesuit parish as it turns north thanks to the prayers of Fr. Arnold Damen. |
| 1955 | Solemn dedication and opening of Shrub Oak, New York Maryland Province philosophate with Cardinal Spellman. |
| 1969 | The death of Louis Twomey, an advocate of interracial justice and labor relations in the United States. |
| 1983 | The death of Jeanne Marie Mortier, secretary and assistant to Teilhard de Chardin, to whom he entrusted his manuscripts. |
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