Mass of the Sunday; creed; the Gloria is omitted. Preface of Advent I. Ritual and funeral Masses are prohibited.
Yr A
[4] Isa 11:1-10; Ps 72:1-2, 7-8, 12-13, 17; Rom 15:4-9; Matt 3:1-12.
Hours of the Sunday; Te Deum
[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:
172nd anniversary of the death of P. Apolonius Kraupa (48) d. 1919 at Katondwe, N. Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
162nd anniversary of the death of F. Marvin Klay (66) d. 1929 at Chishawasha, S. Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
97th anniversary of the death of P. Kevin Quinn (HIB) (77) d. 1994 at Dublin, Ireland.
Anniversary:
87th anniversary of the death of P. Victor Falconer (76) d. 2004 at Kew, W. Australia.
Birthday:
106th birthday of P. Stephen Muyenga WAPA (born this day in 1985).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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.
