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December 2024

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For pilgrims of hope (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."

26 Thursday
  redSt Stephen, first martyrFeast
Mass of the feast; Gloria.
Christmas Preface I - III
Special Communicantes in Roman Canon.
Morning hours of the feast; Te Deum; Evening Prayer of Octave of Christmas.
 [696] Acts 6:8-10; 7:54-59; Ps 31:3cd-4, 6ab+8ab, 16bc+17; Matt 10:17-22.
[RM]Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Stephen, proto-martyr (cf. Acts 7:59-60) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:46th anniversary of the death of P. Gerhard Pieper (38) d. 1978 at Kangaira, Zimbabwe. Read Obituary
Anniversary:32nd anniversary of the death of P. Arnaldo de Lacerda (68) d. 1992 at Lisbon, Portugal. Read Obituary
Anniversary:9th anniversary of the death of P. Manuel Sequeira (87) d. 2015 at Lisbon, Portugal. Read Obituary

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1569(Dec. 25 or 26) Thomas Pounde, of Belmont, dancing before Queen Elizabeth, fell and was jeered at by her Majesty, which led to his conversion.
1637Cardinal Richelieu, the French Prime Minister, banished the Jesuit Nicolás Caussin, confessor of Louis XIII, who had incurred the wrath of the omnipotent minister for giving the king scruples about thecrueltreatment and isolation of the queen mother, his treatment of his wife, and excessive taxation.
1649At Ratisbon Mark Grandl, a German lay-brother, died immediately after making a general confession of his whole life. He had made his own coffin and kept it in his room.
1856The death in Rome of Gilles Henry, a missionary in the Caucasas and Greek archipelago.
1978Fr. Gerhard Pieper, S.J., librarian, aged 38, is shot to death in Zimbabwe.
1979John Reed, S.J. dies, a member of the NY Province, a canon lawyer and teacher of canon law.
2014Joseph Pittau, SJ, dies, age 86. Archbishop. Was Assistant to Fr. Dezza from 1981-83.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2024

Dominical Letter  g f
Golden Number  11
Epact  xix
Solar Cycle 17
Letter of the Martyrology u
Roman Year of Indiction 2
Julian Period Year 6737
Years since the confirmation of the Society 484
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  468
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 3
Sunday Readings  Cycle  B
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 31 March
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    5 May