Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For volunteer not-for-profit organisations (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "We pray that volunteer non-profit organisations committed to human development find people dedicated to the common good and ceaselessly seek out new paths to international cooperation."
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Second Sunday of Advent
Psalter Week 2
Mass of the Sunday; creed; the Gloria is omitted. Preface of Advent I. Ritual and funeral Masses are prohibited.
Yr A
[4] Isa 11:1-10; Ps 72:1-2, 7-8, 12-13, 17; Rom 15:4-9; Matt 3:1-12.
Hours of the Sunday; Te Deum
Anniversary:
96th anniversary of the death of P. Aloysius Leboeuf (68) d. 1926 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
71st anniversary of the death of F. Thomas Tryers (72) d. 1951 at Heythrop, England.
Anniversary:
33rd anniversary of the death of P. John Magan (73) d. 1989 at New York, NY, USA.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1674
Pere Marquette, S.J. erects a mission on shores of Lake Michigan, which place later becomes the city of Chicago.
1848
Two Jesuits land in Australia and begin our work there: Fr.Kranewitter and his companion.
1870
The Roman College, appropriated by the Piedmontese government that had invaded Rome, was reopened as a state Liceo. The monogram of the Society over the main entrance was effaced.
1984
Fr. Fernando Cardenal, the Nicaraguan Minister of Education, receives the document dismissing him from Society of Jesus. He will re-enter the Society in 1996.
1989
John Magan, S.J. dies. He was a founder of the youth or high school retreat ministry at Gonzaga Retreat House, Monroe, NY. In his later years he was a missionary in Zimbabwe, and then a counselor for those addicted to drugs.
