Advent: November 29th

MASS READINGS

November 29, 2022 (Readings on USCCB website)

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Mass Propers for Tuesday of the First Week of Advent:

Entrance Antiphon, Cf. Zec 14:5, 7: Behold, the Lord will come, and all his holy ones with him; and on that day there will be a great light.

Alleluia Verse, Lk 10:21-24: Behold, our Lord shall come with power; he will enlighten the eyes of his servants.

Communion Antiphon, Cf. 2 Tm 4:8: The Just Judge will bestow a crown of righteousness on those who eagerly await his coming.

COLLECT PRAYER

Tuesday of the First Week of Advent: Look with favor, Lord God, on our petitions, and in our trials grant us your compassionate help, that, consoled by the presence of your Son, whose coming we now await, we may be tainted no longer by the corruption of former ways. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever.

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• Skewered Beef Roman Style

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• Religion in the Home for Elementary School: November
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• November Devotion: The Holy Souls in Purgatory
• Little Litany of the Holy Souls
• Prayer for a Happy Death
• Daily Acceptance of Death
• Novena to the Immaculate Conception
• Novena to St. Francis Xavier - The Novena of Grace
• Prayer for the Feast of St. Saturninus

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• Catacombs: Witness To Early Heroism | Pope Saint John Paul II

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• The End and the Beginning: The Cycle of the Liturgical Year

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The Roman Martyrology commemorates St. Saturinius (d. 304), a Roman priest and martyr. With his deacon Saint Sisinius, he was sentenced to hard labor, exiled, tortured and beheaded for his faith in the persecutions of Emperor Decius.

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St. Saturninus
Saturninus went from Rome, by direction of Pope Fabian, about the year 245, to preach the faith in Gaul. He fixed his episcopal see at Toulouse, and thus became the first Christian bishop of that city. There were but few Christians in the place. However, their number grew fast after the coming of the Saint; and his power was felt by the spirits of evil, who received the worship of the heathen. His power was felt the more because he had to pass daily through the capitol, the high place of the heathen worship, on the way to his own church. One day a great multitude was gathered by an altar, where a bull stood ready for the sacrifice. A man in the crowd pointed out Saturninus, who was passing by, and the people would have forced him to idolatry; but the holy bishop answered: "I know but one God, and to Him I will offer the sacrifice of praise. How can I fear gods who, as you say, are afraid of me?" On this he was fastened to the bull, which was driven down the capitol. The brains of the Saint were scattered on the steps. His mangled body was taken up and buried by two devout women.
—Excerpted from Butler's Lives of the Saints

Symbols and Representation: Bishop dragged by a bull; bishop with a bull at his feet.

Highlights and Things to Do:

• San Saturnino Martire is the church in Rome marking the place were St. Saturninus was martyred.
• Some of St. Saturnius' relics are found in the minor basilica of St. John and St. Paul (Santi Giovanni e Paolo) in Rome, the rest are now housed in San Saturnino Martire.
  On November 29, 1987, the relics of the holy Roman martyr Saturninus, which remained for a long time in the Basilica of Saints John and Paul, were transferred to the parish church dedicated to his name and erected by the Supreme Pontiff Pius XI, in 1930, for the pastoral care.
• Read more about his relics and see more images.