This morning at Mass, Fr. Patrick used Eucharistic Prayer I. I like that he usually announces what Eucharistic Prayer he is using so that I can follow along in the missalette. In this prayer, we remember many of the early Saints and Martyrs by name - last on the list is St. Anastasia.
Anastasia lived in the second century. Little is known about her except that she died in the persecutions of Diocletian. She has long been venerated as a healer and exorcist, but most of the stories written about her date from centuries after her death.
Anastasia is one of seven women who, along with the Blessed Virgin Mary, are commemorated by name in the Roman Canon of the Mass. Her feast day is December 25. Prior to the liturgical reforms of the twentieth century, this martyr enjoyed the distinction, unique in the Roman liturgy, of having a special commemoration in the second Mass of Christmas day.
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