• Friday of the First Week of Advent
• Saint of the Day: St. John the Wonder-Worker; Eighth Century bishop of Polybatum, in Phrygia;

  he was a defender of sacred images in the face of the ascendancy of the Iconoclasts, which placed him in considerable danger with the Ionoclast Emperor Leo V the Armenian, but he performed so many miracles that the ruler did not dare to persecute him; he died in 750

• Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/5/25

• Gospel: Matthew 9:27-31

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