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December 2024

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For pilgrims of hope (Watch video(Read Reflection)
"Let us pray that this Jubilee strengthen us in our faith, helping us to recognize the Risen Christ in the midst of our lives, transforming us into pilgrims of Christian hope."

8 Sunday
  violetSecond Sunday of AdventPsalter Week 2
Mass of the Sunday; creed; the Gloria is omitted. Preface of Advent I. Ritual and funeral Masses are prohibited.
Yr C [6] Bar 5:1-9; Ps 126:1-2a, 2b-3, 4-5, 6; Phil 1:4-6, 8-11; Luke 3:1-6.
Hours of the Sunday; Te Deum
[RM]Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture the Immaculate Conception (cf. Gn. 3:15, Lk 1:28) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:86th anniversary of the death of P. Francis Donahoe (62) d. 1938 at Manchester, England. Read Obituary
Anniversary:54th anniversary of the death of P. Lewis Clifford (74) d. 1970 at London, England. Read Obituary
Anniversary:45th anniversary of the death of P. Dermot Murphy (63) d. 1979 at Brighton, MA, USA. Read Obituary
Anniversary:20th anniversary of the death of P. William Loyens (ORE) (78) d. 2004 at Spokane, WA, USA. Read Obituary
Anniversary:7th anniversary of the death of P. CeÌsar Gonçalves Cavaleiro (91) d. 2017 at Covilhã, Portugal. Read Obituary
Birthday:22nd birthday of NS. Tariro Sadler KAMUDYARIWA (born this day in 2002).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1649Noel Chabanel dies a martyr. He led a harsh life as a missionary, persevering despite language/cultural difficulties. He dies at the hands of a renegade Huron.
1661At Watten, the death of Father Henry More, a grandson of St. Thomas More. He had been Provincial.
1751Jean Pierre Caussade, S.J. dies. He is the supposed author of the famous Abandonment to Divine Providence.
1848Two Austrian Jesuits arrive in Australia to begin our work there. 1860. The Irish Province was erected by Father Beckx, and the Australian Mission annexed to it.
1872The first Mass is celebrated by the Jesuits at St. Joseph’s Church on Ward Island, New York City.
1932A Letter of Fr. General Ledochowski to the Provincials of Italy on the Missa Recitata and the liturgical movement.
1980Lorenzo Uribe dies in Columbia. He was a famed botanist.
1984Walter Ciszek, S.J. dies. He is the author of With God in Russia, and He Leadeth Me. He was in a Russian detention camp from 1939 to 1963, and was officially declared dead in 1947.
1986Publication of the document, "The Characteristics of Jesuit Education."
1987John Paul II is the first Pope to visit the Oriental Institute in Rome. He exhorts the faculty and students to be "strong oarsmen " in the Bark of Peter."
2014Adolfo Nicolas convoked the 36th General Congregation for October 2016.
2014Convocation of General Congregation 36, and will involve the Resignation of Fr. General.
2016Union of Chicago-Detroit and Wisconsin Provinces Union of California and Oregon Provinces
 

VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2024

Dominical Letter  g f
Golden Number  11
Epact  xix
Solar Cycle 17
Letter of the Martyrology u
Roman Year of Indiction 2
Julian Period Year 6737
Years since the confirmation of the Society 484
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  468
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 3
Sunday Readings  Cycle  C
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 31 March
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    5 May