Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the right to an education (Read Reflection) "Let us pray for migrants, refugees and those affected by war, that their right to an education, which is necessary to build a better world, might always be respected."
4 Saturday
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Saturday 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
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Saturday Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Optional
Anniversary:
104th anniversary of the death of F. Edmund Gisler (60) d. 1921 at Grahamstown, RSA.
Anniversary:
58th anniversary of the death of P. Philip Condell (92) d. 1967 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Birthday:
50th 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.
