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| violet | Third Sunday of Advent | Psalter Week 3 |
| or rose | Gaudete Sunday | |
| Mass of the Sunday; creed; the Gloria is omitted. Preface of Advent I. Ritual and funeral Masses are prohibited. | |
| Yr B | [8] Isa 61:1-2a, 10-11; Luke 1:46-48, 49-50, 53-54; 1 Thess 5:16-24; John 1:6-8, 19-28.
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| Hours of the Sunday; Te Deum | |
| | Organ may be played solo; flowers may decorate the altar today. (PS 25). | |
| Anniversary: | 137th anniversary of the death of F. Henry Hardy (43) d. 1916 at Grahamstown, RSA.  |
| Anniversary: | 115th anniversary of the death of P. Edward Etherington (84) d. 1938 at St Beuno's, Tremeirchion, N Wales. |
| Anniversary: | 92nd anniversary of the death of F. Thomm Ashton (86) d. 1961 at Stillorgan, Ireland. |
| Birthday: | 61st birthday of S. Paulo Lucas ESTÊVÃO (born this day in 1992). |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 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." |
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