Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For educators (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that educators may be credible witnesses, teaching fraternity rather than competition, and helping the youngest and most vulnerable in particular."
4 Wednesday
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Wednesday before Epiphany
Mass of the day; Preface of Christmas I - III
Cycle I
[207] 1 John 3:7-10;Ps 98:1, 7-8, 9; John 1:35-42.
Hours of the day
Anniversary:
102nd anniversary of the death of F. Edmund Gisler (60) d. 1921 at Grahamstown, RSA.
Anniversary:
56th anniversary of the death of P. Philip Condell (92) d. 1967 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Birthday:
48th birthday of S. Maximus Muyembe CHONGO (born this day in 1975).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1572
In Sicily, Michael Foglio, a Scholastic, is said to have appeared after death, and to have revealed the terrible sufferings of lax religious in Purgatory.
1619
The English mission is raised to the status of a province.
1634
Fr. Marcello Mastrilli, miraculously cured through prayers to Xavier the previous day, offered a public Mass of thanksgiving - the remote origin of the "Novena of Grace."
1829
Publication of Pope Leo XII's Rescript, declaring the Society to be canonically restored in England.
1928
Antonio Astrain, S.J. dies Jesuit historian and biographer of St. Ignatius dies at Loyola, Spain.
1952
Henry Davis, S.J. dies He taught moral theology for 40 years, and wrote the 4 vol. Moral and Pastoral Theology.
