Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the gift of diversity in the Church (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that the Spirit help us recognize the gift of different charisms within the Christian community, and to discover the richness of different ritual traditions in the heart of the Catholic Church."
Last Quarter
5 Friday
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Friday before Epiphany
Mass of the day; Preface of Christmas I - III
Cycle II
[208] 1 John 3:11-21;Ps 100:1b-2, 3, 4, 5; John 1:43-51.
Hours of the day
Anniversary:
114th anniversary of the death of P. Edward Crawley (39) d. 1910 at Gaika Loop, RSA.
Anniversary:
72nd anniversary of the death of P. Charles Bert (82) d. 1952 at Chishawasha, S. Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
38th anniversary of the death of P. Joseph McCarthy (73) d. 1986 at Monze, Zambia.
Anniversary:
21st anniversary of the death of P. Richard Foley (81) d. 2003 at London, England.
Birthday:
56th birthday of P. Leonard Peter CHITI (born this day in 1968).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1644
Isaac Jogues returns from New France to Renne, and meets the Jesuits. He is asked, "Any news of Jogues?" He answers, "I am he."
1940
A Letter of Father General Ledochowski thanking Catholic University of America for the honorary degree given him.
1968
Joseph is born. O'Connell, S.J. dies. He was known as JB, a renowned Father Minister, of the New York Province.
1995
The 34th General Congregation: Servants of Christ's Mission. The major task of it wasthe revision of the law proper to the Society of Jesus.
2007
Rodrigo Mejia, is appointed Apostolic Vicar (Bishop) in Soddo-Hosanna diocese of Ethiopia.
2008
The 35th General Congregation elected Adolfo Nicolas as new Superior General. The Congregation set five areas as apostolic priorities for the Society: Africa, China, the intellectual apostolate, the inter-provincial institutions in Rome, and Migration and Refugees.
