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| white | THE MOST HOLY NAME OF JESUS
Titular Feast of the Society of Jesus
Outside SJ churches opt. mem.
Texts in the Jesuit Supplement. (Download Mass texts and Divine Office texts here) | Solemnity |
| Mass of the Solemnity; Gloria, Creed, Preface of the Solemnity |
| [SJ-Lect] Sir 51:8-12 [LM 983]; Ps 8:4-5, 6-7, 8-9 [LM 904.1]; Phil 2:1-11 [LM 136]; Lk 2:21-24 [Proper]. |
| | Hours of the Solemnity; Te Deum. |
| [RM] | Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture today the Holy Name of Jesus (formerly remembered on the occasion of the Circumcision, celebrated on the 1st January) (cf. Lk 1:31) [from the Roman Martyrology]. |
| Anniversary: | 143rd anniversary of the death of P. Fernando Heep (36) d. 1881 at Mopeia, Mozambique.  |
| Birthday: | 88th birthday of P. Mark HACKETT (born this day in 1936). |
| Birthday: | 37th birthday of P. Mark NGWENYA (born this day in 1987). |
| Birthday: | 22nd birthday of NS. Marcelino Maxwell Tinashe NYASULU (born this day in 2002). |
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NOTE: | Mass for the needs of the Church and the Society should be offered on Jan 3 (or Jan 4 if Jan 3 is the Epiphany), Titular Feast of the Society. | |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| | THE MOST HOLY NAME OF JESUS (Titular Feast of the Society of Jesus) (Solemnity)
Ignatius of Loyola and his nine “friends in the Lord” from the University of Paris, called themselves “Company of Jesus” because they had pledged to follow Christ, their true leader, under the banner of the Cross, in loving service to the poor. Later, they adopted the same title for the Order they would found. In Pope Paul III’s Bull Regimini Militantis Ecclesiae (1540) approving the new religious Order, Company of Jesus was translated in Latin as Societas Jesu – Society of Jesus. The title is juxtaposed with the monogram IHS, the first three letters in Greek for JESUS, which is an integral symbol of Jesuit identity worldwide.
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| 1551 | Ignatius Loyola ill, offers to resign as General, but the offer is not accepted. |
| 1589 | Sixtus V, at first favorable to the Society, determined to alter the name "Society of Jesus" and introduce choir and other radical changes, which death alone prevented his carrying out. |
| 1713 | In the novitiate at Naples died Joseph Di Geronimo, lay brother, and brother of St. Francis Di Geronimo. He was Socius to the Master of Novices for 40 years. |
| 1816 | Fr. General Brzozowski and 25 members of the Society, guarded by soldiers, left St. Petersburg, Russia, having been banished by the civil government. |
| 1900 | The Xavier Society for the Blind is born in the basement of the College of St. Francis Xavier, NYC. |
| 1964 | Gustave Weigel, S.J. dies ecumenist, theologian. 2014. Letter on Re-creating the Apostleship of Prayer |
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