Project BLACK MAMBA: Advent

Today is the optional memorial of Saint Damasus I, Pope (circa 305-384): Saint-link ūnus, Saint-link duo, & Wikipedia-link.

Commentary: Wayback Machine. Quoth the Holy Redeemer bulletin:

Encouraged his personal Secretary Saint Jerome (30 September) in his Vulgate translation of the Bible; presided over the Council of Rome in 382, which may have set down the canon of Scripture; encouraged veneration of the Christian martyrs, restoring & creating access to their tombs in the Catacombs of Rome & elsewhere.

Scripture of the Day
Personal Reading
The Gospel according to Matthew, chapter fourteen (verses one thru thirty-six).

Mass Readings
The Book of Isaiah, chapter forty-eight, verses seventeen thru nineteen;
Psalm One, verses one thru four & six;
The Gospel according to Matthew, chapter eleven, verses sixteen thru nineteen;

or, for the Memorial,
The Acts of the Apostles, chapter twenty, verses seventeen, eighteen(a), twenty-eight thru thirty-two, & thirty-six;
Psalm One Hundred Ten, verse four(b);
The Gospel according to John, chapter fifteen, verses nine thru seventeen.