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December 2054

20 Sunday
  violetFourth Sunday of AdventPsalter Week 4
Mass of the Sunday; creed; the Gloria is omitted. Preface of Advent II. Ritual and funeral Masses are prohibited.
Yr C [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:93rd anniversary of the death of F. Francis Meier (78) d. 1961 at Chishawasha, S. Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:72nd anniversary of the death of F. Stanislaus Tamkvaitis (70) d. 1982 at Harare, Zimbabwe. Read Obituary
Anniversary:66th anniversary of the death of P. Patrick McNamara (65) d. 1988 at Middlesborough, England. Read Obituary

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1538St. Ignatius celebrates his first Mass in the basilica of St. Mary Major, Rome, at the altar of the Holy Crib. He had been ordained more than a year.
1545Isabel Roser pronounced her vows as Jesuit together with Lucrezia di Brandine and Francisca Cruyllas in the presence of Ignatius at the church of St. Maria della Strada in Rome.
1562At Goa died Juan Nunez Bareto, a Portuguese Jesuit and the first Jesuit to be a bishop.
1642In London Fr. Thomas Holland was condemned to death. On hearing the sentence he exclaimed, "Deo Gratias," and recited the Te Deum.
1760127 Jesuits sail from Goa to Lisbon and are then put into dungeons by order of Carvalho.
1815A ukase of Czar Alexander I was published banishing the Society from St. Petersburg and Moscow, on the pretext that they were troubling the Russian Church. That same night the Fathers left the capital for Polotsk.
1918Joseph Grimmelsman dies. He had been President of three Jesuit colleges, as well as provincial.
1996Philip Hartnett, S.J. dies in Dublin, age 53. He had been Provincial and Head of the European Conference of Provincials.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2054

Dominical Letter  d
Golden Number  3
Epact  xxi
Solar Cycle 19
Letter of the Martyrology B
Roman Year of Indiction 2
Julian Period Year 6767
Years since the confirmation of the Society 514
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  498
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 33
Sunday Readings  Cycle  C
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 29 March
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    3 May