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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 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. | |
| white | 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: | 107th anniversary of the death of P. JoaĚo JoseĚ de Moura (66) d. 1921 at BaiĚa, Brazil.  |
| Anniversary: | 33rd anniversary of the death of P. Ivan Bougaardt (63) d. 1995 at Johannesburg, RSA. |
| Anniversary: | 32nd anniversary of the death of P. Faustino Rodrigues (79) d. 1996 at PĂłvoa de Varzim, Portugal. |
| Anniversary: | 14th anniversary of the death of P. Domingos da Silva (80) d. 2014 at Lifidzi, Rep. of Mozambique. |
| Birthday: | 53rd birthday of P. Slyvester KASIRORI (born this day in 1975). |
| 6th Anniversary of the death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger, b. 16 Apr 1927, died this day, aged 95, in 2022. He was elected Pope 19 Apr 2005 and resigned 28 Feb 2013). | |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 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. |
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