Origen and/or Rufinus on Celebrating Days of Physical Birth and Original Sin

But Scripture also declares that one himself who is born whether male or female is not "clean from filth although his life is of one day." And that you may know that there is something great in this and such that it has not come from the thought to any of the saints; not one from all the saints is found to have celebrated a festive day or a great feast on the day of his birth. No one is found to have had joy on the day of the birth of his son or daughter. Only sinners rejoice over this kind of birthday. For indeed we find in the Old Testament Pharaoh, king of Egypt, celebrating the day of his birth with a festival, and in the New Testament, Herod. However, both of them stained the festival of his birth by shedding human blood. For the Pharaoh killed "the chief baker," Herod, the holy prophet John "in prison." But the saints not only do not celebrate a festival on their birth days, but, filled with the Holy Spirit, they curse that day.

Sed et ille ipse qui nascitur, sive virilis, sive feminei sexus sit, pronuntiat de eo Scriptura quia non sit "mundus a sorde, etiamse unius diei sit vita ejus." Et ut scias esse in hoc grande nescio quid, et tale quod nulli sanctorum ex sententia venerit, nemo ex omnibus sanctis invenitur diem festum, vel convivium mangum egisse in die natalis sui, nemo invenitur habuisse laetitiam in die natalis filii, vel filiae suae. Soli peccatores super hujusmodi nativitate laetantur. Invenimus etenim in Veteri quidem Testamento Pharaonem regem Aegypti, diem natalis sui cum festivitate celebrantem, in Novo vero Testamento Herodem. Uterque tamen eorum ipsam festivitatem natalis sui profusione humani sanguinis ernentavit. Ille enim praepositum pistorum, hie sanctum prophetam Joannem obtruncavit in carcere. Sancti vero non solum non agunt festivitatem in die natalis sui, sed et Spiritu sancto repleti exsecrantur hunc diem.

Origen (as translated/edited to Latin by Rufinus, English translation by Gary Wayne Barkley), Homily 8 on Leviticus (written c. A.D. 238-44, trans. c. A.D. 403-05), at section 3, paragraph (2) (p. 156)(Latin in Migne PG vol. 12, col. 495, A-B).