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| white | THE 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; Ps 128:1-2, 3, 4-5; Col 3:12-21 or (U.S.) Col 3:12-17; Matt 2:13-15, 19-23. |
| Hours of the feast. Te Deum. | |
| red | 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). | Optional |
| [RM] | Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. David, king (cf. 2 Sa. 5:3-4) [from the Roman Martyrology]. |
| Anniversary: | 148th anniversary of the death of P. Alphonse Daignault (88) d. 1938 at Montreal, Canada.  |
| Anniversary: | 139th anniversary of the death of P+. Robert Brown (70) d. 1947 at Oxford, England. |
| Anniversary: | 127th anniversary of the death of P. José Manuel Teixeira (48) d. 1959 at Soutelo, Braga, Portugal. |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 1594 | 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. |
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