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."
31 Friday
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Seventh day in the Octave of Christmas
Mass of the day; Gloria; preface of Christmas I - III; Special Communicantes in Roman Canon.
Cycle I
[204] 1 John 2:18-21;Ps 96:1-2, 11-12, 13; John 1:1-18.
Hours of the day.Te Deum.
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St. Sylvester I, pope Common of Pastors: For a Pope Readings from the Common of Saints: [700] Ezek 34:11-16 (#719.9); Ps 23:1-3a, 4, 5, 6 (#721.2); Matt 16:13-19 (#724.2).
Optional
Anniversary:
100th anniversary of the death of P. JoaĚo JoseĚ de Moura (66) d. 1921 at BaiĚa, Brazil.
Anniversary:
26th anniversary of the death of P. Ivan Bougaardt (63) d. 1995 at Johannesburg, RSA.
Anniversary:
25th anniversary of the death of P. Faustino Rodrigues (79) d. 1996 at PĂłvoa de Varzim, Portugal.
Anniversary:
7th anniversary of the death of P. Domingos da Silva (80) d. 2014 at Lifidzi, Rep. of Mozambique.
Birthday:
46th birthday of P. Slyvester KASIRORI (born this day in 1975).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
The Annual Te Deum at the Gesu, the Mother Church of the Society. A tradition from the 17th century, with the Pope traditionally in attendance.
1551
Xavier left Sancian for Malacca and Goa to prepare for his journey to China.
1618
St. John Berchmans arrives in Rome to begin philosophy and is received by Fr. General Vitelleschi. A few days later he moves to and joins the scholastics at the Roman College.
1640
St. John Francis Regis dies. He was a missionary to towns and villages in southern France.
1726
Saints Aloysius Gonzaga and Stanislaus Kostka are canonized by Benedict XIII.
1868
Leonce de Grandmaison, S.J. is born. He was a writer and apologist, and served as the editor of Etudes.
1940
Charles Simons of the California Province, a missionary to China, is shot and killed by the Communists.
1985
In Canada, the death of Louis Laurendeau, for 13 years, until 1983, the Secretary of the Society.
1990
Anthony Paone, S.J. dies New York Province. His book, My Daily Bread sold over 1.3 million copies.
1996
Bishop Carlos Sevilla who had been an auxiliary Bishop in San Francisco is appointed Bishop of Yakima, Washington.
