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| white | Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary | Solemnity |
| Mass of the solemnity; gloria, creed; preface of the solemnity. |
| Gn 3:9-15, 20; Ps 98:1, 2-3ab, 3bc-4; Eph 1:3-6, 11-12; Lk 1:26-38. | |
| Other masses are prohibited, but the funeral mass is allowed.
Hours of the solemnity; Te Deum |
| Transferred from yesterday. | |
| [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: | 128th anniversary of the death of P. Apolonius Kraupa (48) d. 1919 at Katondwe, N. Rhodesia.  |
| Anniversary: | 118th anniversary of the death of F. Marvin Klay (66) d. 1929 at Chishawasha, S. Rhodesia. |
| Anniversary: | 53rd anniversary of the death of P. Kevin Quinn (HIB) (77) d. 1994 at Dublin, Ireland. |
| Anniversary: | 43rd anniversary of the death of P. Victor Falconer (76) d. 2004 at Kew, W. Australia. |
| Birthday: | 62nd birthday of P. Stephen Muyenga WAPA (born this day in 1985). |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 1681 | At Manila died Father Francis Calderon, for thirty years a missioner in Japan, so poor that he had not a breviary of his own. |
| 1741 | At 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. |
| 1808 | Robert Molyneux, S.J. dies. He was a member of the restored Society in the USA. |
| 1886 | The beatification of Edmund Campion and Companions by Leo XIII. |
| 1951 | The Russian Center at Fordham University opens. |
| 1998 | The 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. |
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