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."
6 Saturday
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Saturday of the second week in Advent.
Mass of the day. Preface of Advent I
Cycle I
[186] Sir 48:1-4, 9-11;Ps 80:2ac+3b, 15-16, 18-19; Matt 17:9a, 10-13.
Hours of the day.
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St Nicholas, bishop
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Anniversary:
21st anniversary of the death of F. Stephen Lisewski (74) d. 2004 at Warsaw, Poland.
Birthday:
21st birthday of NS. Nicholas KAZIMOTO (born this day in 2004).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1618
In Naples, the Jesuits were blamed for proposing to the Viceroy that a solemn feast should be held in honor of the Immaculate Conception, and a public pledge be taken to defend that doctrine. This was regarded as a novelty not to be encouraged.
1658
Balthasar Gracian, S.J. dies. Author of The Compleat Gentleman, The Art of Worldly Wisdom. This is a guide to the ethics of worldly life. He was banished from one of our colleges. He wrote, for example, that one should so trust friends as if tomorrow they could be fiends, etc.
1757
In Paris Father Busembaum's Medulla Theologiae Moralis was publicly burned by order of Parliament, on the ground (false) that it favored tyrannicide.
1875
Wreck of the Deutschland. Five Franciscan sisters are drowned and it inspires Hopkins to immortalize them in poetry.
1921
I.A. Cullen, S.J. dies He was the founder of the Pioneers, The Total Abstinence Society of the Sacred Heart.
