Daybreak

Ninth Day of Christmas Memorial of Saints Basil the Great (330-379) and Gregory Nazianzen (329-390); good friends, who met at university; Basil became bishop of Caesarea in 374, and he was called upon to refute the Arian heresy, which held that Jesus was not God; when one town was falling away from the faith, Basil ordained Gregory bishop and sent him there; Basil died at age 49; Gregory resigned from Constantinople because of opposition and spent his last years reading, writing his autobiography, and enjoying his gardens Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 1/2/25 Gospel: John 1:19-28