• Thursday of the First Week of Advent
• Optional Memorial of St. John Damascene, 676-749; spent most of his life in the Monastery ofSaint Sabas near Jerusalem, and all of his life under Muslim rule, indeed protected by it; famous for his writings against the iconoclasts, for his treatise, “Exposition of the Orthodox Faith,” and for being one of the two greatest poets of the Eastern Church
• Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/4/25
• Gospel: Matthew 7:21, 24-27

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