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December 18, Fourth Sunday of Advent

Left panel: St.Rufus and his tomb in the Catacomb of St. Agnes, Rome. I can't find an online photo of St. Zosimus other than Pope St. Zosimus. Right panel; Blessed Anthony Grassi
ST. RUFUS (and ZOSIMUS)(d 104), Friends of St. Ignatius of Antioch, Martyrs
BLESSED ANTONIO GRASSI (Italy, 1591-1671), Priest
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.
Blessed Antonio Grassi was born in Fermo, northeast Italy, near Loreto, and was a devotee of Our Lady of Loreto from his childhood. He became an Oratorian father [St. Philip Neri's order] known for his unflappable serenity and his gifts as a father confessor and spiritual counselor in his hometown. In 1621, he was struck by lightning while praying at the Loreto shrine and was electrocuted so badly he was paralyzed and was expected to die. But he survived, and thereafter, he made an annual pilgrimage to Loreto. In 1625, he was named superior of the Oratorians in Fermo. His basic rule for everyone was 'ad litteram', meaning follow orders to the letter. His central passion was the daily Mass and Adoration in a long life that was otherwise unremarkable. In old age, as he lost his physical faculties, his Archbishop came to give him Communion every day. He was beatified in 1900.
Readings for today's Mass:
www.usccb.org/bible/readings/121811.cfm



THE POPE'S DAY

The Holy Father started the day with a pastoral visit to Rome's largest prison in Rebibbia, where he answered
questions from some of the inmates. He decried chronic overcrowding in prisons which, he said, imposes a second
penalty on the inmates.

He came back to the Vatican in time for the noon Angelus. Reflecting on the reiteration of the Annunciation-Incarnation
event in today's Gospel, he pointed out that Mary's intact virginity while conceiving her Divine Son with the grace of
the Holy Spirit is reciprocal to the divinity of Jesus. The Pope also took note of the beatification in Spain of 22 missionary
priests and 1 layman who were martyred in 1936 during the Spanish Civil War; and asked for prayers for the victims of
severe floods in the Philippines.
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