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December 2097

10 Tuesday
  violetTuesday of the second week in Advent.
Mass of the day. Preface of Advent I
Cycle I [182] Isa 40:1-11; Ps 96:1-2, 3+10ac, 11-12, 13; Matt 18:12-14.
Hours of the day.
  whiteOur Lady of LoretoOptional
Birthday:107th birthday of P. Kelvin MUNKULI (born this day in 1990).

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.}
1548The 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.
1828New York State law protects the seal of confession, as a result of the case and trial involving Fr. Anton Kohlmann, S.J.
1882First publication of the Analecta Bollandiana, critical studies of the saints.
1984Bishop Desmond Tutu receives the Nobel Peace Prize.
1984Fernando Cardenal is expelled from the Society, to continue his work as Minister of Education in Nicaragua. He will re-enter the Society in 1996.
1999Marcel Matungulu Otene, S.J. dies, age 53. He was the African Assistant and had been provincial of PAC.
2005Sosoliso plane disaster. 60 students of Loyola Jesuit College perish, on way home for Christmas holidays in Port Harcourt, Nigeria.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2097

Dominical Letter  f
Golden Number  8
Epact  xvi
Solar Cycle 6
Letter of the Martyrology r
Roman Year of Indiction 15
Julian Period Year 6810
Years since the confirmation of the Society 557
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  541
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 76
Sunday Readings  Cycle  A
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 31 March
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    5 May