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Saint of the Day
The feast the whole Church keeps today, the saints you can visit at their tomb, and what they are patrons of.
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The readings at Mass · 3 December 2024
Saint Francis Xavier, Priest
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Saint Francis Xavier, Priest
Tuesday of the First Week of Advent
Pray at their tomb
Patron saints of the day
- Saint Francis Xavier — patron of missionaries and the missions, India, Japan
The General Roman Calendar; tombs and patronages verified against Catholic sources. Local calendars may keep other saints today.
From the Fathers
The Fathers speak
When we call God Father
We ought then, beloved brethren, to remember and to know, that when we call God Father, we ought to act as God’s children; so that in the measure in which we find pleasure in considering God as a Father, He might also be able to find pleasure in us. Let us converse as temples of God, that it may be plain that God dwells in us.