Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For Christians in areas of conflict (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that Christians living in areas of war or conflict, especially in the Middle East, might be seeds of peace, reconciliation and hope."
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Third Sunday of Advent
Psalter Week 3
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Gaudete Sunday
Mass of the Sunday; creed; the Gloria is omitted. Preface of Advent I. Ritual and funeral Masses are prohibited.
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[7] Isa 35:1-6a, 10; Ps 146:6-7, 8-9a, 9b-10; Jas 5:7-10; Matt 11:2-11.
Hours of the Sunday; Te Deum
Organ may be played solo; flowers may decorate the altar today. (PS 25).
Anniversary:
109th anniversary of the death of F. Henry Hardy (43) d. 1916 at Grahamstown, RSA.
Anniversary:
87th anniversary of the death of P. Edward Etherington (84) d. 1938 at St Beuno's, Tremeirchion, N Wales.
Anniversary:
64th anniversary of the death of F. Thomm Ashton (86) d. 1961 at Stillorgan, Ireland.
Birthday:
33rd birthday of S. Paulo Lucas ESTÊVÃO (born this day in 1992).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1615
At Rome died Father Peter Anthony Spinelli, of a ducal family... For eighteen years he wore an old ragged inner vest.
1619
In Japan the arrest and consignment to a loathsome prison at Omura of Blessed Charles Spinola.
1959
Pope John XXIII makes Augustine Bea, Scripture scholar, a Cardinal.
1979
Fr. Riccardo Lombardi, S.J. died, age 71. He was the Founder of the Better World Movement, and a famous preacher, "the microphone of God."
