Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For pilgrims of hope (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that this Jubilee strengthen us in our faith, helping us to recognize the Risen Christ in the midst of our lives, transforming us into pilgrims of Christian hope."
Waxing Gibbous
19 Thursday
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19 December.
Mass of 19 December; preface of Advent II
Cycle II
[195] Judg 13:2-7, 24-25a;Ps 71:3-4a, 5-6ab, 16-17; Luke 1:5-25.
Hours of 19 December
Diocese of Chinhoyi, Zimbabwe
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Anniversary of the Dedication of the Cathedral of Corpus Christi (1965)
Feast
Mass of the Dedication of a Church, Gloria, proper readings [701-706], Peface of the Dedication of a Church II. Hours of he Dedication, Te Deum.
Anniversary:
128th anniversary of the death of F. Francis Garnier (18) d. 1896 at Port Elizabeth, RSA.
Anniversary:
43rd anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Logan (73) d. 1981 at Seattle, USA.
Anniversary:
33rd anniversary of the death of F. Manuel Alves Lopes (89) d. 1991 at Covilhã, Portugal.
Anniversary:
8th anniversary of the death of P. Frank Woda (90) d. 2016 at Lusaka, Zambia.
Birthday:
25th 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.
