Daily Readings:
Saints/Martyrs/Feasts/Fasts to be observed/commemmorated/celebrated: the Fast of the Nativity
St. Rufus
Feastday: December 18
Rufus and Zosimus were citizens of Antioch (or perhaps Philippi) who were brought to Rome with St. Ignatius of Antioch during the reign of Emperor Trajan. They were condemned to death for their Christianity and thrown to wild beasts in the arena two days before the martyrdom of Ignatius. Feast Day December 18.
St. Flannan
Feastday: December 18
St. Flannan 7th. cent. bishop. Son of an Irish chieftain, Turlough he made a pilgrimage to Rome where Pope John IV consecrated him. On his return he became first bishop of Killaloe and also preached in the Hebrides. His feast day is December 18th.
St. Auxentius
Feastday: December 18
321
Bishop and soldier in the army of co-Emperor Licinius Licinianus. Auxentius refused to take part in sacrifices before pagan gods and was persecuted for the faith. Released from military service, he was ordained a priest. Auxentius became the bishop of Mopsuestia, in Cilicia.
St. Bodagisil
Feastday: December 18
588
Founder of an abbey on the banks of the Meuse, in Belgium. He became the abbot of the monastery, praised by St. Gregory of Tours and St. Venantius Fortunatus.
St. Victurus
Feastday: December 18
unknown
A member of a group of thirty-five martyrs who were executed in North Africa. Among the known members of the martyred company were also Victor, Victorinus, Adjutor, and Quartus.
St. Winebald
Feastday: December 18
761
Winebald + Benedictine abbot and missionary. The brother of Sts. Willibald and Walburga, he was born in Wessex, England, and went on a pilgrimage to Rome and the Holy Land with his brother and father. When their father died at Lucca, the brothers proceeded to Rome. Winebald remained in the Eternal City while his brother went on to the Holy Land. Winebald studied in Rome for seven years, went back to England, but then returned to Rome determined to enter the religious life. At the invitation of St. Boniface, he gathered together a group of English missionaries and went to Germany in 739. Winebald was ordained, labored in Thuringia and Bavaria, and then joined Wilibald in his missionary enterprise in Eichstatt, Frisia, Holland. With his brother, he founded the monastery of Heidenheim, Germany, where he served as abbot with his sister as abbess. He struggled against the local pagans and strove to make the monastery one of the leading ecclesiastical centers in Germany. Feast day: December 18.
Sts. Theotimus & Basilian
Feastday: December 18
unknown
Two martyrs put to death at Laodicea (modern Syria) at an unknown date.The Acts of their martyrdom are lost.
St. Samthan
Feastday: December 18
6th century
Irish abbess and foundress of the convent of Clonbroney, County Longford. She was revered for her patronage of culture and spiritual perfection in the monastic traditions.
St. Desideratus
Feastday: December 18
790
Benedictine son of St. Waningus. He probably resided at Fecamp, the abbey founded by his courtier father, who became a monk. Desideratus’ relics are enshrined in Ghent, Belgium.
St. Gatian
Feastday: December 18
337
Bishop, one of six who accompanied St. Dionysius to Rome, then to France. Gatian is considered the first bishop of Tours, France, where he preached for half a century.
Sts. Rufus and Zosimus
Feastday: December 18
107
Martyred citizens of Antioch, who were brought to Rome with St. Ignatius of Antioch and shared in his martyrdom during the reign of Emperor Trajan. They died two days before Ignatius by being thrown to the beasts in the arena.
St. Quintus
Feastday: December 18
255
One of a group of martyrs put to death in Africa during the persecutions of the Church under Emperor Trajanus Decius.
St. Moses
Feastday: December 18
250
Martyr of Africa, sometimes listed as Moysetes. He was slain in the persecution of Emperor Trajanus Decius.
St. Paul My
Feastday: December 18
1838
Vietnamese martyr. A convert to Catholicism, Paul entered into the service of the Paris Foreign Missions and thus helped to spread the Catholic faith in Vietnam. He was seized by enemies of the Church and was martyred by strangulation. He was canonized in 1988.
St. Peter Truat
Feastday: December 18
1838
Vietnamese martyr. He was a fellow catechist with Peter Duong. They were put to death by Vietnamese authorities. Both were canonized by Pope John Paul II in 1988.
St. Adjutor
Feastday: December 18
martyred with Victorus, Victor, Quartus, and 40 Companions, in the West and North in Africa.
Scriptural Readings:
First Reading - Jer 23:5-8
5 Behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will raise up to David a just branch: and a king shall reign, and shall be wise, and shall execute judgement and justice in the earth. 6 In those days shall Juda be saved, and Israel shall dwell confidently: and this is the name that they shall call him: the Lord our just one. 7 Therefore behold the days to come, saith the Lord, and they shall say no more: The Lord liveth, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt: 8 But the Lord liveth, who hath brought out, and brought hither the seed of the house of Israel from the land of the north, and out of all the lands, to which I had cast them forth: and they shall dwell in their own land.
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Psalm - Ps 72:1,12-13,18-19
1 A psalm on Solomon.12 For he shall deliver the poor from the mighty: and the needy that had no helper. 13 He shall spare the poor and needy: and he shall save the souls of the poor.18 Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who alone doth wonderful things. 19 And blessed be the name of his majesty for ever: and the whole earth shall be filled with his majesty. So be it. So be it.
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Gospel - Mt 1:18-25
18 Now the generation of Christ was in this wise. When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child, of the Holy Ghost. 19 Whereupon Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing publicly to expose her, was minded to put her away privately. 20 But while he thought on these things, behold the angel of the Lord appeared to him in his sleep, saying: Joseph, son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife, for that which is conceived in her, is of the Holy Ghost.21 And she shall bring forth a son: and thou shalt call his name JESUS. For he shall save his people from their sins. 22 Now all this was done that it might be fulfilled which the Lord spoke by the prophet, saying: 23 Behold a virgin shall be with child, and bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us. 24 And Joseph rising up from sleep, did as the angel of the Lord had commanded him, and took unto him his wife. 25 And he knew her not till she brought forth her firstborn son: and he called his name JESUS.
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