[182] Isa 40:1-11;Ps 96:1-2, 3+10ac, 11-12, 13; Matt 18:12-14.
Hours of the day.
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Our Lady of Loreto
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Birthday:
51st birthday of P. Kelvin MUNKULI (born this day in 1990).
Jubilee:
Blue Sapphire Jubilee of P. Jakub ROSTWOROWSKI who celebrates 65 years in the Society today.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
At Loretto in Piceno, the Translation of the Holy House of Mary the Mother of God, wherein the Word was made flesh. Pope Benedict XV declared the same Blessed Virgin Mary, under the title of Loretto, to be the chief Patroness before God of all airmen. RM (This is also a traditional privileged feast of the Society of Jesus because we had been assigned as penitentiaries to this sanctuary.}
1548
The General of the Dominicans wrote in defense of the Society of Jesus on seeing it attacked in Spain by the great Dominican theologian, Melchior Cano, and others.
1828
New York State law protects the seal of confession, as a result of the case and trial involving Fr. Anton Kohlmann, S.J.
1882
First publication of the Analecta Bollandiana, critical studies of the saints.
1984
Bishop Desmond Tutu receives the Nobel Peace Prize.
1984
Fernando Cardenal is expelled from the Society, to continue his work as Minister of Education in Nicaragua. He will re-enter the Society in 1996.
1999
Marcel Matungulu Otene, S.J. dies, age 53. He was the African Assistant and had been provincial of PAC.
2005
Sosoliso plane disaster. 60 students of Loyola Jesuit College perish, on way home for Christmas holidays in Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
