Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For Christians in areas of conflict (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that Christians living in areas of war or conflict, especially in the Middle East, might be seeds of peace, reconciliation and hope."
4 Thursday
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Thursday of the first week in Advent.
Mass of the day. Preface of Advent I
Cycle I
[178] Isa 26:1-6;Ps 118:1+8-9, 19-21, 25-27a; Matt 7:21, 24-27.
Hours of the day.
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St John Damascene, priest and doctor of the Church
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Anniversary:
99th anniversary of the death of P. Aloysius Leboeuf (68) d. 1926 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
74th anniversary of the death of F. Thomas Tryers (72) d. 1951 at Heythrop, England.
Anniversary:
36th 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.
