Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: Catechists (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray for the catechists, summoned to announce the Word of God: may they be its witnesses, with courage and creativity and in the power of the Holy Spirit."
29 Wednesday
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Fifth day in the Octave of Christmas
Mass of the day; Gloria; preface of Christmas I - III; Special Communicantes in Roman Canon.
Cycle I
[202] 1 John 2:3-11;Ps 96:1-2a, 2b-3, 5b-6; Luke 2:22-35.
Hours of the day.Te Deum.
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St. Thomas Becket, bishop and martyr Common of Martyrs, or Common of Pastors Readings from the Common of Saints: [699] 2 Tim 2:8-13; 3:10-12 (#716.5); Ps 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9 (#715.2); Matt 16:24-27 (#742.6).
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Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. David, king (cf. 2 Sa. 5:3-4) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:
83rd anniversary of the death of P. Alphonse Daignault (88) d. 1938 at Montreal, Canada.
Anniversary:
74th anniversary of the death of P+. Robert Brown (70) d. 1947 at Oxford, England.
At Paris the execution of Jean Chatel for the attempted execution of King Henry IV. Because he had been educated at the Jesuit College de Clermont, the Society was exiled, its property confiscated, and one of its members executed.
1651
At Prague died Father Bernard Oppel. When Rector of the College he gave his own clothes to the poor, and melted down the church plate to relieve the plague-stricken.
1886
Publication of the beatiï¬cation decree of the English martyrs.
1975
In Moravia the death of Frantisek Nemec who had been interned in Dachau and then lived in Moscow as a scientist who also taught catechism to children.
1979
A Papal Bull of Pope John Paul II nominates Carlo Martini, S.J. as Archbishop of Milan.
