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December 2023

Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For people with disabilities (Watch video(Read Reflection)
"Let us pray that people with disabilities may be at the centre of attention in society, and that institutions may offer inclusion programmes that value their active participation."

9 Saturday
  violetSaturday 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.
  whiteSt Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin, hermit Optional
[RM]Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Hannah, mother of Samuel (cf. 1 Sa. 1:2, 20) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:104th anniversary of the death of P. Apolonius Kraupa (48) d. 1919 at Katondwe, N. Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:94th anniversary of the death of F. Marvin Klay (66) d. 1929 at Chishawasha, S. Rhodesia.
Anniversary:29th anniversary of the death of P. Kevin Quinn (HIB) (77) d. 1994 at Dublin, Ireland. Read Obituary
Anniversary:19th anniversary of the death of P. Victor Falconer (76) d. 2004 at Kew, W. Australia. Read Obituary
Birthday:38th birthday of P. Stephen Muyenga WAPA (born this day in 1985).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1681At Manila died Father Francis Calderon, for thirty years a missioner in Japan, so poor that he had not a breviary of his own.
1741At Paris the death of Father Charles Poree, a famous master of Rhetoric. Nineteen of his pupils were admitted into the French Academy, among them being Voltaire, who, in spite of his impiety, always felt an affectionate regard for his old master.
1808Robert Molyneux, S.J. dies. He was a member of the restored Society in the USA.
1886The beatification of Edmund Campion and Companions by Leo XIII.
1951The Russian Center at Fordham University opens.
1998The death of Yves Raguin. He founded the Taipei Ricci Institute in the year 1966 and directed it until 1996. Expert on Chinese religion and spirituality.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2023

Dominical Letter  A
Golden Number  10
Epact  viii
Solar Cycle 16
Letter of the Martyrology h
Roman Year of Indiction 1
Julian Period Year 6736
Years since the confirmation of the Society 483
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  467
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 2
Sunday Readings  Cycle  B
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 9 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    16 April