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."
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Second Sunday of Advent
Psalter Week 2
Mass of the Sunday; creed; the Gloria is omitted. Preface of Advent I. Ritual and funeral Masses are prohibited.
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[6] Bar 5:1-9; Ps 126:1-2a, 2b-3, 4-5, 6; Phil 1:4-6, 8-11; Luke 3:1-6.
Hours of the Sunday; Te Deum
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Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture the Immaculate Conception (cf. Gn. 3:15, Lk 1:28) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:
86th anniversary of the death of P. Francis Donahoe (62) d. 1938 at Manchester, England.
Anniversary:
54th anniversary of the death of P. Lewis Clifford (74) d. 1970 at London, England.
Anniversary:
45th anniversary of the death of P. Dermot Murphy (63) d. 1979 at Brighton, MA, USA.
Anniversary:
20th anniversary of the death of P. William Loyens (ORE) (78) d. 2004 at Spokane, WA, USA.
Anniversary:
7th anniversary of the death of P. CeÌsar Gonçalves Cavaleiro (91) d. 2017 at Covilhã, Portugal.
Birthday:
22nd birthday of NS. Tariro Sadler KAMUDYARIWA (born this day in 2002).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1649
Noel Chabanel dies a martyr. He led a harsh life as a missionary, persevering despite language/cultural difficulties. He dies at the hands of a renegade Huron.
1661
At Watten, the death of Father Henry More, a grandson of St. Thomas More. He had been Provincial.
1751
Jean Pierre Caussade, S.J. dies. He is the supposed author of the famous Abandonment to Divine Providence.
1848
Two Austrian Jesuits arrive in Australia to begin our work there. 1860. The Irish Province was erected by Father Beckx, and the Australian Mission annexed to it.
1872
The first Mass is celebrated by the Jesuits at St. Joseph’s Church on Ward Island, New York City.
1932
A Letter of Fr. General Ledochowski to the Provincials of Italy on the Missa Recitata and the liturgical movement.
1980
Lorenzo Uribe dies in Columbia. He was a famed botanist.
1984
Walter Ciszek, S.J. dies. He is the author of With God in Russia, and He Leadeth Me. He was in a Russian detention camp from 1939 to 1963, and was officially declared dead in 1947.
1986
Publication of the document, "The Characteristics of Jesuit Education."
1987
John Paul II is the first Pope to visit the Oriental Institute in Rome. He exhorts the faculty and students to be "strong oarsmen " in the Bark of Peter."
2014
Adolfo Nicolas convoked the 36th General Congregation for October 2016.
2014
Convocation of General Congregation 36, and will involve the Resignation of Fr. General.
2016
Union of Chicago-Detroit and Wisconsin Provinces Union of California and Oregon Provinces
