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| white | THE HOLY FAMILY OF JESUS, MARY, AND JOSEPH
Mass of the feast; Gloria, 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. | |
| Only one reading is used before the Gospel when this feast is celebrated on Friday. |
| Anniversary: | 29th anniversary of the death of P. Thomas O'Meara (HIB) (82) d. 1993 at Dublin, Ireland.  |
| Anniversary: | 5th anniversary of the death of P. Edward Rogers (ZIM) (93) d. 2017 at Boscombe, England. |
| Birthday: | 79th birthday of F. Júlio Silvério GUIRIONE (born this day in 1943). |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 1582 | At Evora in Portugal died Fr. Manoel Alvarez, whose Latin grammar was used for centuries in school, Jesuit and non-Jesuit alike (for instance, Eton). |
| 1916 | The left leg of Fr. Rupert Mayer is shattered in battle during World War I. He had already won the Iron Cross. |
| 1927 | Col. Charles Lindbergh visits St. John’s College, Belize as part of a good will tour. |
| 1962 | James Conway, S.J. dies. He was a Philosophy professor, expert on Descartes, of the New York Province. |
| 1992 | Timothy Healy dies. He was President of Georgetown University from 1976-89. He was the Director of the NY Public Library until his death. |
| 1996 | David Stanley, S.J. dies in Canada. He was a Scripture scholar and also wrote several books on Scripture and the Spiritual Exercises. |
| 2000 | John Hardon, S.J. dies, age 86. Chicago Province, prolific writer. |
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