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Baptism of the Lord | Feast |
| Mass of the Feast; Gloria, Preface of the Baptism of the Lord. |
| [21] Is 42:1-4, 6-7 or (Year C) Is 40:1-5, 9-11; Ps 29:1-2,3-4,3b+9b-10a or (Year C) Ps 104:1-4,24-25,27-30; Acts 10:34-38 or (Year C) Tit 2:11-14, 3:4-7; Luke 3:15-16, 21-22. |
| Only one reading is used before the Gospel when this feast is celebrated on Monday. |
| Hours of the feast. Te Deum. |
| Ordinary Time begins tomorrow. (Switch to Vol. III of the Lit. of the Hours.)
Week 1 of the Psalter. |
| When Ordinary Time
begins on Tuesday, the Lectionary recommends combining the Monday readings [305]
with the Tuesday readings [306] (or using them in lieu of the Tuesday readings),
so that the scripture of Ordinary Time begins with the beginnings of
the biblical books. |
| | Archdioceses of Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg, South Africa [SACBC] | | white | St Adrian of Canterbury, Abbot | Optional | | Common of Pastors |
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| Anniversary: | 113th anniversary of the death of P. Bevis Collings (56) d. 1960 at Makumbi, S. Rhodesia.  |
| Anniversary: | 75th anniversary of the death of P. William Lane (66) d. 1998 at Choma, Zambia. |
| Anniversary: | 67th anniversary of the death of P. Augusto Correia Pinto (90) d. 2006 at Braga, Portugal. |
| Anniversary: | 65th anniversary of the death of F. Christopher Murray (HIB) (96) d. 2008 at Dublin, Ireland. |
| Birthday: | 76th birthday of NS. Bongani Gerald G. TSHUMA (born this day in 1997). |
| Birthday: | 83rd birthday of S. Mark ZULU (born this day in 1990). |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 1567 | The first missionaries to Peru, nine in number, are sent by St. Francis Borgia. |
| 1831 | Father Peter de Smet and a few companions sail from Europe for North America. |
| 1986 | Michel de Certeau, S.J. dies, age 61. Writer, anthropology, 1987. The death of William Lynch, S.J. He wrote on religion and literature: Christ and Apollo, Images of Hope, Images of Faith, etc. |
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