December 30 Mon Sixth Day within the Octave of the Nativity
1 Jn 2:12-17/Lk 2:36-40
31 Tue Seventh Day within the Octave of the Nativity
[Saint Sylvester I, Pope]
1 Jn 2:18-21/Jn 1:1-18
JANUARY 2020 1 Wed SOLEMNITY OF MARY, THE HOLY MOTHER OF GOD
([Holyday of Obligation]
Nm 6:22-27/Gal 4:4-7/Lk 2:16-21
2 Thu Saints Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzen,
Bishops and Doctors of the Church Memorial
1 Jn 2:22-28/Jn 1:19-28
3 Fri Christmas Weekday
[The Most Holy Name of Jesus]
1 Jn 2:29—3:6/Jn 1:29-34
4 Sat USA: Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, Religious Memorial
1 Jn 3:7-10/Jn 1:35-40
The Victor's Place 
What Matters
It doesn’t matter
when You were born.
The time of year doesn’t matter,
the temperature doesn’t matter.
It doesn’t matter
where You were born,
whether angels sang,
if there were shepherds and Magi,
if they followed the same star.
For those who need proof–
it matters that the census is
recorded in history,
the star is in the record books,
Your death and resurrection
have been recorded.
What really matters is that
we live the story
over and over again,
down through the centuries.
What matters is that
You came to live among us,
that you still live among us,
that you died and rose again
that we might live forever.
Gloria Ziemienski,
December 4, 2006
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