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December 2024

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For pilgrims of hope (Read Reflection)
"Let us pray that this Jubilee strengthen us in our faith, helping us to recognize the Risen Christ in the midst of our lives, transforming us into pilgrims of Christian hope."

5 Thursday
  violetThursday of the first week in Advent.
Mass of the day. Preface of Advent I
Cycle II [178] Isa 26:1-6; Ps 118:1+8-9, 19-21, 25-27a; Matt 7:21, 24-27.
Hours of the day.
Anniversary:19th anniversary of the death of P. William Higham (88) d. 2005 at Preston, Lancs, England. Read Obituary
Birthday:52nd birthday of P. George Mtaja BWANALI (born this day in 1972).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1551The Italian Province is constituted. Paschal Broet is named Provincial. It is the fourth province of the Society, after Portugal, Spain, and India.
1584Gregory XIII issues a bull Omnipotentis Dei establishing the Sodality of the Roman College as the first sodality in the world (Primaria) and places all sodalities under Fr. General. The Sodality of the Roman College had begun in 1564.
1590Brother Daniel Seghers, S.J. is born. He is a famous Flemish painter of insects and flowers.
1649Noel Chabanel, S.J. is martyred at the hands of an Indian renegade.
1906Novices at Jesuit Novitiate, St. Andrew on Hudson, NY, are grantedpermission to receive Communion daily. This was a breakthrough due to the letters of Pius X.
1967John Hurley, S.J. dies. He had been a missionary, superior, and imprisoned in the Philippines.
1979John Paul II visits the Gregorian University and the Biblical Institute.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2024

Dominical Letter  g f
Golden Number  11
Epact  xix
Solar Cycle 17
Letter of the Martyrology u
Roman Year of Indiction 2
Julian Period Year 6737
Years since the confirmation of the Society 484
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  468
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 3
Sunday Readings  Cycle  C
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 31 March
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    5 May