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."
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Fourth Sunday of Advent
Psalter Week 4
Mass of the Sunday; creed; the Gloria is omitted. Preface of Advent II. Ritual and funeral Masses are prohibited.
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[12] Mic 5:1-4a; Ps 80:2-3, 15-16, 18-19; Heb 10:5-10; Luke 1:39-45.
Hours of the Sunday; Te Deum
Anniversary:
125th anniversary of the death of F. Francis Garnier (18) d. 1896 at Port Elizabeth, RSA.
Anniversary:
40th anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Logan (73) d. 1981 at Seattle, USA.
Anniversary:
30th anniversary of the death of F. Manuel Alves Lopes (89) d. 1991 at Covilhã, Portugal.
Anniversary:
5th anniversary of the death of P. Frank Woda (90) d. 2016 at Lusaka, Zambia.
Birthday:
22nd birthday of S. Emmanuel SHIKABENGA (born this day in 1999).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1593
At Rome Father Robert Bellarmine, the future Cardinal, was appointed Rector of the Roman College.
1734
In Quebec, died Francis Guesner, called another John Francis Regis. He did more in 20 months in New France than most could do in 20 years.
1761
More than 100 Jesuits, under pressure from the French crown and French bishops, signed a declaration that they would teach the four Gallican Articles, directed against the authority of the Holy See.
1935
Pietro Boetto, an Italian Jesuit, is created a Cardinal by Pope Pius XI.
1942
The execution of Fr. Adam Sztark, Rector and chaplain in Bielorussia. He risked his life giving refuge to Jewish children and adults. He is formally recognized as "Righteous among Gentiles," by Holocaust martyrs in Jerusalem.
