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Epiphany of the Lord | Solemnity |
| Mass of the Vigil or of the Solemnity; Gloria, Creed. |
| | [20] Is 60:1-6; Ps 72:1-2, 7-8, 10-11, 12-13; Eph 3:2-3a, 5-6; Matt 2:1-12. |
| The Solemn Proclamation of the Date of Easter and the other major dates is encouraged (DPPL, n. 118). It is read by the deacon or cantor immediately after the Gospel. See Appendix I (below). |
| Preface of Epiphany; EuchPr I Communicantes.
Hours of the Solemnity. Te Deum.
On weekdays between Epiphany and Baptism, Week 2 of the Psalter.
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| Anniversary: | 161st anniversary of the death of F. Edmund Gisler (60) d. 1921 at Grahamstown, RSA.  |
| Anniversary: | 115th anniversary of the death of P. Philip Condell (92) d. 1967 at Salisbury, Rhodesia. |
| Birthday: | 107th birthday of S. Maximus Muyembe CHONGO (born this day in 1975). |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 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. |
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