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Saint of the Day

St. Anastasia (4th century)
Anastasia was the matron of a noble Roman pagan family. A spiritual student of St. Chrysogonus, she was martryed during he persecutions of Diocletian. Little else is known about her, but she is distinctly honored in the first Eucharistic prayer of the second Christmas Mass.

Reflections from the Saints

Celebrate the feast of Christmas every day, even every moment in the interior temple of your spirit, remaining like a baby in the bosom of the heavenly Father, where you will be reborn each moment in the Divine Word, Jesus Christ.

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Reuters News

• Trump Nominates Miami-Dade Official As Ambassador to Panama
• Biden, Trump Send Different Christmas Messages
• Biden Signs 50 Bills Into Law, Makes Bald Eagle the Country's Official Bird
• Suspect in New York City Subway Fire Killing Charged With Murder, Arson
• Former US President Clinton Discharged from Hospital

• Toyota Is Donating $1 Million to Trump's Inauguration
• Target's Holiday Advertising Push Will Only Take It So Far, Investors Say
• Trump Says He'll Seek the Death Penalty for 'Rapists, Murderers, and Monsters'
• US Bank, Business Groups Sue Fed Over Stress Test Framework
• Big Banks, Business Groups Sue US Fed Over Annual Stress Tests
• American Airlines Resumes Flights After Brief Grounding Ahead of Busy Christmas Travel
• Russian Court Jails U.S. Citizen Spector for 15 Years After Espionage Case, TASS Says
• Starbucks Strike to Expand to Over 300 US Stores on Christmas Eve, Union Says
• Alec Baldwin Manslaughter Case Dropped by New Mexico Prosecutor
• Biden Delivers on Threat to Veto Bill to Expand US Judiciary

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Catholic News Agency

• Urbi Et Orbi: Pope Francis Urges World Leaders to Pursue Dialogue, Peace in Jubilee Year
• 'An Incredible Thing': Catholic Groups Collect Christmas Toys for Children in Need
• The 8 Days of Christmas? A Look at the Christmas Octave
• Pope Francis on Christmas 2024: God Is Our Hope
• Pope Francis Launches Jubilee 2025 With Opening of Holy Door

• 'Christ, the Savior, Is Here:' 200 Years of 'Silent Night' in Its Austrian Birthplace
• Becoming the Mother of God: Did Mary Have a Choice?
• The Little-Known Story of a Saint's Christmas Vision of the Infant Jesus in Rome
• Where Does the 'Feast of the 7 Fishes' Christmas Eve Tradition Come From?
• Pandoro or Panettone? 5 American Seminarians in Rome Share Their Christmas Traditions
• PHOTOS: Cardinal Pizzaballa Shares Christmas Message After Gaza Visit
• Christians in Gaza, Syria 'Need Everything,' Vatican Cardinal Says
• Trump Vows Executive Action 'On Day 1' to End 'Transgender Lunacy'
• 'Hollywood Priest': PBS Documentary Tells Life Story of Father Bud Kieser
• Pope Francis Praises Bocce, Calling It a Sport for 'Normal People'

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Catholic World News

• Pope Francis Issues Christmas Message (Vatican News)
• Pray for the Middle East, Cardinal Zuppi Writes in Italian Bishops' Christmas Message (Chiesa Cattolica Italiana)
• Ecumenical Patriarch, in Christmas Encyclical, Contrasts AI Technological Aspirations, Incarnate Christ (Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America)
• Russian Missile Strike Damages Catholic Church in Kyiv (Our Sunday Visitor)
• Italian PM, Rome's Mayor Unveil Flagship Jubilee Project (L'Unione Sarda)

• The Shepherds of Bethlehem Show Us How to Find Hope, Jerusalem Patriarch Says in Christmas Message (Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem)
• Laotian Cardinal Retires at 80 (Fides)
• US Bishops' President Welcomes President Biden's Commutation of Death Sentences (USCCB)
• Ecumenical Guests to Take Part in Christmas Eve Opening of Jubilee Year (L'Osservatore Romano (Italian))
• Pope Opens Holy Door, Begins Jubilee Year (Vatican News)
• Retired Australian Bishop Faces New Abuse Charges (Pillar)
• Merry Christmas from Catholic World News! (CWN)
• Advising Confession, Pope Urges Members of Roman Curia to Bless, Not Speak Ill of Others (Vatican Press Office)
• Biden Commutes Federal Death Sentences (Vatican News)

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Catholic Education Resource Center

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Life in Christ: Catechism #2544

Jesus enjoins his disciples to prefer him to everything and everyone, and bids them "renounce all that [they have]" for his sake and that of the Gospel. Shortly before his passion he gave them the example of the poor widow of Jerusalem who, out of her poverty, gave all that she had to live on. The precept of detachment from riches is obligatory for entrance into the Kingdom of heaven.

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