On the SUNDAY BEFORE THE NATIVITY (which falls between the 18th and the 24th of December), the Holy Fathers have instituted the Commemoration of the GENEALOGY of our Savior JESUS CHRIST, in which we include not only His ancestors according to the flesh from Adam to Joseph the Betrothed of the Mother of God, but all the Righteous and the Prophets, who, by their words or deeds, announced the coming in the flesh of the Son of God
