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Treasures of Our Faith with Deacon Richard Vehige · Dec 11, 2025 · 5m

Today, December 11, as our Church celebrates the Memorial of Damasus I, pope, we are encouraged to read and reflect on a passage of the apostle Paul to Titus (1:7-11:2:1-8), entitled "The teaching of the Apostle on the qualities and duties of bishops". Our treasure, which follows, is from a treatise against Faustus by Saint Agustine. bishop.

The son of a Roman priest, possibly of Spanish extraction, Damasus was born around the year 305. He started as a deacon in his father's church, and served as a priest in what later became the basilica of San Lorenzo in Rome. He served Pope Liberius…