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December 2021

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: Catechists (Watch video(Read Reflection)
"Let us pray for the catechists, summoned to announce the Word of God: may they be its witnesses, with courage and creativity and in the power of the Holy Spirit."

14 Tuesday
  whiteSt John of the Cross, priest and doctor of the ChurchMemorial
Mass of the memorial; preface of Advent I or of the saint.
[188] Zeph 3:1-2, 9-13; Ps 34:2-3, 6-8, 17-18, 19+23; Matt 21:28-32.
Hours of the saint.
Anniversary:105th anniversary of the death of F. Henry Hardy (43) d. 1916 at Grahamstown, RSA. Read Obituary
Anniversary:83rd anniversary of the death of P. Edward Etherington (84) d. 1938 at St Beuno's, Tremeirchion, N Wales. Read Obituary
Anniversary:60th anniversary of the death of F. Thomm Ashton (86) d. 1961 at Stillorgan, Ireland. Read Obituary
Birthday:29th birthday of S. Paulo Lucas ESTÊVÃO (born this day in 1992).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1615At Rome died Father Peter Anthony Spinelli, of a ducal family... For eighteen years he wore an old ragged inner vest.
1619In Japan the arrest and consignment to a loathsome prison at Omura of Blessed Charles Spinola.
1959Pope John XXIII makes Augustine Bea, Scripture scholar, a Cardinal.
1979Fr. Riccardo Lombardi, S.J. died, age 71. He was the Founder of the Better World Movement, and a famous preacher, "the microphone of God."

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2021

Dominical Letter  c
Golden Number  8
Epact  xvi
Solar Cycle 14
Letter of the Martyrology r
Roman Year of Indiction 14
Julian Period Year 6734
Years since the confirmation of the Society 481
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  465
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 0
Sunday Readings  Cycle  C
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 4 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    2 May