Morning Prayer - MONDAY, 26 Dec 2022

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - December 26, 2022 | Feast of St. Stephen, the First Martyr

"Let us adore the new-born Christ; today he has crowned Saint Stephen." - Invitatory antiphon, Lauds

Stephen is the first martyr. He was one of the deacons appointed by the Apostles to organize the distribution of food to the poor. He performed many miracles and confounded the Jews in disputation. They fabricated false charges against him. At his trial he preached the risen Christ to them, so they stoned him to death. He prayed for his persecutors as he was dying. One of them, Saul of Tarsus, who was looking after the cloaks of the stone-throwers, was later converted and became the great missionary St. Paul.

St. Stephen, pray for us!

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