Daily Readings for: November 29, 2011
(Readings on USCCB website)
Collect: Look with favor, Lord God, on our petitions, and in our trials grant us your compassionate help, that, consoled by the presence of your Son, whose coming we now await, we may be tainted no longer by the corruption of former ways. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.
- Advent and the Year of the Eucharist
- Death and Burial
- November and the Holy Souls
- Practical Suggestions for Christian Living (Anointing of the Sick)
- Praying for the Dead and Gaining Indulgences During November
- Prepare for Death
- Preparing for Heaven
- Religion in the Home for Elementary School: November
- Religion in the Home for Preschool: November
- Teaching About Death
- Teaching Children About Sickness and Death
ACTIVITIES
PRAYERS
Advent: November 29th
Tuesday of the First Week of Advent Old Calendar: St. Saturninus, martyr
According to the 1962 Missal of Bl. John XXIII the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite, today is the feast of St. Saturninus, martyr.
Jesse Tree ~ Fall of Man
St. Saturninus 
The Martyrology gives these details: "At Rome on the Via Salaria the death of the holy martyr, the aged Saturninus, and of the deacon Sisinius. Under the emperor Maximianus they suffered long in prison. The prefect of Rome ordered them placed on the rack till their joints were torn loose, then beaten with knotted whips, and burnt with torches; at last removed from the rack, they were beheaded." According to the inscription on his tomb by Pope St. Damasus, Saturninus hailed from Carthage. The Acts of Marcellus say he was condemned as a frail old man to carry sand for the construction of the Baths of Diocletian; but when by his patience and prayer and encouragement he led many to the faith, he was beheaded.
Symbols: Bishop dragged by a bull; bishop with a bull at his feet.