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| white | THE MOST HOLY NAME OF JESUS (tranferred
from Jan 3) |
Solemnity |
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Titular Feast of the Society of Jesus
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| Mass of the Solemnity; Gloria, Creed; Proper Preface [SJ]. |
| Hours of the Solemnity; Te Deum. |
| | [SJ-Lect] Sir 51:8-12 [LM 983]; Ps 8:4-5, 6-7, 8-9 [LM 904.1]; Phil 2:1-11 [LM 136]; Lk 2:21-24 [Proper].
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| Anniversary: | 162nd anniversary of the death of F. Edmund Gisler (60) d. 1921 at Grahamstown, RSA.  |
| Anniversary: | 116th anniversary of the death of P. Philip Condell (92) d. 1967 at Salisbury, Rhodesia. |
| Birthday: | 108th 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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