Project BLACK MAMBA: Advent

Today we remember Saint Offa of Essex (eighth century, A.K.A. King Offa): Saint-link & Wikipedia-link.

We also remember Saint Margaret of Fontana, Virgin, T.O.S.D. (1440-1513): Saint-link & Wikipedia-link.

Commentary: Wayback Machine.

We also remember Blessed Mary Frances Schervier, Religious, S.P.S.F. (1819-1876), foundress of the Poor Sisters of Saint Francis & the Franciscan Sisters of the Poor: Blessed-link ūna, Blessed-link duae, & Wikipedia-link; Wikipedia-link S.P.S.F. & Wikipedia-link S.F.P..

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

Mass Readings
The Book of Zephaniah, chapter three, verses one, two, & nine thru thirteen;
Psalm Thirty-four, verses two, three, six, seven, seventeen thru nineteen, & twenty-three;
The Gospel according to Matthew, chapter twenty-one, verses twenty-eight thru thirty-two.