Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For educators (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that educators may be credible witnesses, teaching fraternity rather than competition, and helping the youngest and most vulnerable in particular."
7 Saturday
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Saturday before Epiphany
Mass of the day; Preface of Christmas I - III
Cycle I
[210] 1 John 5:14-21;Ps 149:1-2, 3-4, 5+6a+9b; John 2:1-12.
Hours of the day
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St Raymond of Penyafort, priest Common of Pastors (Readings from the Common of Saints: [511] 2 Cor 5:14-20 (#722.7); Ps 103:1bc-2, 3-4, 8-9, 13-14, 17-18a (#739.6); Luke 12:35-40 (#742.22).
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St Raymond of Penyafort, priest Common of Pastors Readings from the Common of Saints: [511] 2 Cor 5:14-20 (#722.7); Ps 103:1bc-2, 3-4, 8-9, 13-14, 17-18a (#739.6); Luke 12:35-40 (#742.22).
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Anniversary:
94th anniversary of the death of P. Rudolph Handmann (77) d. 1929 at Sankt Andrä, Austria.
Anniversary:
80th anniversary of the death of P. LuĂs Gonzaga Dialer (77) d. 1943 at Recife, Brazil.
Anniversary:
60th anniversary of the death of F. James Feeley (57) d. 1963 at Grahamstown, RSA.
Anniversary:
60th anniversary of the death of P. Miguel Ferreira da Silva (42) d. 1963 at Furancungo / Lifidzi, Province of Mozambique.
Anniversary:
46th anniversary of the death of P. Charles O'Neill (50) d. 1977 at Port Elizabeth, RSA.
Anniversary:
10th anniversary of the death of P. Anthony Parish (72) d. 2013 at Boscombe, England.
Anniversary:
8th anniversary of the death of P. Joachim von Kerssenbrock (85) d. 2015 at New York, NY, USA.
Birthday:
32nd birthday of S. Lovemore MASHIRI (born this day in 1991).
Jubilee:
Crystal Jubilee of P. Ireneu Modesto MOISÉS who celebrates 15 years in the Society today.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1652
The 10th General Congregation opened and it elected as General the Roman Jesuit Luigi Gottifredi, but he died three months later while the Congregation was still in session. The German Jesuit, Goswin Nickelis elected superior general.
1824
Bishop Du Bourg offered the Jesuits his college, which was to become St. Louis University.
1996
Wilhelm Klein, S.J. dies at Muenster, at the age of 106. He was a Professor and Provincial, perhaps the oldest Jesuit ever.
