| 2 Thursday | |
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| white | Sts Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzen, bishops and doctors of the Church | Memorial |
| Mass of the memorial; preface of Christmas I - III, or of the memorial.
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| | [205] 1 John 2:22-28; Ps 98:1, 2-3ab, 3cd-4; John 1:19-28. |
| Common of Pastors, or Common of Doctors of the Church
(Readings from the Common of Saints: [510] Eph 4:1-7, 11-13 (#722.8); Ps 23:1b-3a, 4, 5, 6 (#721.2); Matt 23:8-12 (#724.3).)
Hours of the Memorial. |
| Prop. Ants. Bened. & Magn. |
| white | Sts Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzen, bishops and doctors of the Church | Memorial |
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| [RM] | Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Abel (cf. Gn 4:4, Mt. 23:34–35) [from the Roman Martyrology]. |
| Anniversary: | 59th anniversary of the death of P. Joel Jordan (34) d. 1972 at Portland, USA.  |
| Anniversary: | 19th anniversary of the death of P. John McAuley (89) d. 2012 at Dublin, Ireland. |
| Jubilee: | Sapphire Jubilee of P. Roland VON NIDDA who celebrates 45 years since professing Final Vows today. |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 1554 | The husband of Princess Juana dies. She was 19, and, under the alias of Mateo Sanchez would soon become a Jesuit scholastic. |
| 1619 | At Rome, St. John Berchmans and Bartholomew Penneman, his companion scholastic from Belgium, entered the Roman College. |
| 1726 | Domenico Zipoli, S.J. dies of tuberculosis. He was a composer in the Jesuit Reductions. He died before his ordination, which was delayed because no bishop was near. |
| 1848 | At Rome, as Pius IX was returning to the Quirinal, angry shouts were raised, "Death to the Jesuits." The Pope fainted in his carriage. |
| 1922 | Formal opening of Weston College as a House of Studies. |
| 1953 | Pope Pius XII gives permission to St. Louis University President Paul Reinert to name the new library in his honor. |
| 1983 | Cy Schommer, S.J., violinist, dies. |
| 1983 | Pope John Paul II reveals his intention to make Carlo Martini, S.J. and Henri deLubac, S.J. cardinals. There have been 18 Jesuit cardinals. |
| 1987 | The end of a five day meeting of Jesuit Islamicists in Cairo. |
| 1993 | Victor Yanitelli dies President of St. Peter's College, 1963-80, and parochial vicar. The homilist at his funeral said: "When I die, I want to be judged by Vic rather than by Jesus Christ." |
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