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December 2025

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For Christians in areas of conflict (Read Reflection)
"Let us pray that Christians living in areas of war or conflict, especially in the Middle East, might be seeds of peace, reconciliation and hope."

28 Sunday
  whiteTHE HOLY FAMILY OF JESUS, MARY, AND JOSEPH
Mass of the feast; Gloria, Creed. Christmas Preface I - III. Special Communicantes in Roman Canon.
Feast
 [17] Sir 3:2-6, 12-14 or (Year C) 1 Sam 1:20-22, 24-28; Ps 128:1-2, 3, 4-5 or (Year C) Ps 84:2-3, 5-6, 9-10; Col 3:12-21 (3:12-17) or (Year C) 1 John 3:1-2, 21-24; Luke 2:41-52.
Hours of the feast. Te Deum. 
[RM]Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture all the Innocent children of Bethlehem (cf. Mt. 2:16) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:86th anniversary of the death of P. Charles Bick (78) d. 1939 at Holy Cross, S. Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:53rd anniversary of the death of F. Charles McCann (69) d. 1972 at Lanark, Scotland. Read Obituary
Anniversary:50th anniversary of the death of P. William Smulders (44) d. 1975 at Beatrice, Republic of Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:17th anniversary of the death of F. José de Carvalho Lima (82) d. 2008 at Coimbra, Portugal. Read Obituary
Anniversary:13th anniversary of the death of P. José Luís de Gonzaga Neto (82) d. 2012 at Cernache, Portugal. Read Obituary

On this day in our Jesuit history...

HOLY INNOCENTS, MARTYRS, Feast. Special feast for Jesuit Novices. 1622. Frances de Sales dies.
1540In Rome Peter Ribadeneira, aged fourteen, began his noviceship, after making the Spiritual Exercises.
1663The death of Fr. Francis Maria Grimaldi. He was a noted astronomer who did research on the refraction of light. Isaac Newton made use of his work.
1802Pope Pius VII allowed Father General Gabriel Gruber to afïŹliate the English Jesuits to the Society of Jesus in Russia.
1802Pope Pius VII allows Fr. General Gruber to affiliate the English Jesuits to the Society of Jesus in Russia.
1832St. Louis University receives its charter. It is the first Catholic University west of the Allegheny Mountains. Peter Verhaegen is appointed as the first President.
1953The Society recalls its worker priests in France.
1967Servant of God, Egide Van Broeckhoven, S.J. a priest worker, is killed in an accident at the factory where he worked.
1983Fr. Francis Xavier Chu, S.J., dies in a work camp in China. 32 years in prison.
1988Fr. Peter Davis, S.J. age 43 dies of AIDS, in Oregon.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2025

Dominical Letter  e
Golden Number  12
Epact  *
Solar Cycle 18
Letter of the Martyrology P
Roman Year of Indiction 3
Julian Period Year 6738
Years since the confirmation of the Society 485
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  469
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 4
Sunday Readings  Cycle  C
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 20 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    20 April