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Commemorated in the Roman Martyrology
Saint Isaac, bishop in Armenia
Commemorated on this date; not observed liturgically this year.
Isaac or Sahak of Armenia (c. 350 – c. 438) was the catholicos (or patriarch) of the Armenian Church from c. 387 until c. 438. He is sometimes known as Isaac the Great or Sahak the Parthian (Armenian: Սահակ Պարթեւ; Sahak Part῾ew) in reference to his father's Parthian origin.
Today in the liturgy
Feast
The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a feast in the Roman Rite on which the Church celebrates Mary's birth as the dawn of salvation and the preparation for the Incarnation.
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Biblical Typology
Biblical Typology is reading persons, events, and institutions in God's earlier works as patterns fulfilled without being erased in Christ.
Typology discerns a unity in God's saving plan: creation, the flood, exodus, manna, kingdom, temple, sacrifice, and other realities can prefigure Christ, the Church, the sacraments, or final glory. A type is a real earlier reality, not merely a verbal prediction.
The New Testament itself reasons typologically, presenting Christ as a new Adam and Passover lamb and baptism in relation to the flood and exodus. Patristic preaching and the liturgy extend this scriptural practice.
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Saint Maximilian Mary Kolbe — priest, martyr, apostle of the Immaculata, and pioneer of Catholic publishing.
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