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December 2085

16 Sunday
  violetThird Sunday of AdventPsalter Week 3
or roseGaudete Sunday
Mass of the Sunday; creed; the Gloria is omitted. Preface of Advent I. Ritual and funeral Masses are prohibited.
Yr A [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). 
[RM]Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Haggai, prophet (cf. Hg. 1:1) [from the Roman Martyrology].
[RM]Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. David, king and all the antecedents of Christ (cf. 2 Sa 5:4–11) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:166th anniversary of the death of P. Ladislaus Bulsiewicz (40) d. 1919 at Katondwe, N. Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:132nd anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Hector (64) d. 1953 at Musami, S. Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Birthday:141st birthday of P. Roland VON NIDDA (born this day in 1944).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1545The Council of Trent opens. Five Cardinals and 31 Bishops are present. Fathers Laynez and Salmeron are present as Papal theologians and Father Claude Le Jay as theologian of Cardinal Otto Truchsess. Martin Luther dies two months after the Council opens.
1624At Rome died Fr. Francis Sacchini, an early historian and secretary of the Society. He never wasted a moment of time. Pointing to an aged muleteer he said: "That is my father."
1643Michael Le Tellier is born. He was a Provincial and a confessor to Louis XIV, and an enemy of the Jansenists.
1657Return from Canada to France of Father Anthony Poncet, horribly maimed. and mutilated by the Iroquois Indians.
1935Pietro Boetto is made a cardinal. He had been provincial, Procurator General, and Assistant for Italy.
1965The death of Felix Restrepo in Bogota, Colombia. A decree of the President honored him at his death, as a Christian humanist, scholar, writer on literature, philosophy, history, and linguistics.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2085

Dominical Letter  g
Golden Number  15
Epact  iii
Solar Cycle 22
Letter of the Martyrology c
Roman Year of Indiction 3
Julian Period Year 6798
Years since the confirmation of the Society 545
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  529
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 64
Sunday Readings  Cycle  A
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 15 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    15 April