Memorial of St. Thomas Aquinas, 1225-1274; doctor of the church, also known as the “angelic doctor”; preeminent spokesman of the Catholic tradition of reason and of divine revelation; one of the great teaches of the medieval Catholic Church Tuesday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 1/28/20 Gospel: […]

Monday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time Optional Memorial of St. Angela Merici, 1474-1540; foundress of the first teaching congregation of women, and of the first instance of what is now known as a secular institute Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 1/27/20 Gospel: Mark 3:22-30

Third Sunday in Ordinary Time Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 1/26/20 Gospel: Matthew 4:12-23

Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul Saturday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 1/25/20 Gospel: Mark 16:15-18

Memorial of St. Francis de Sales, 1567-1622; author of “Introduction to the Devout Life,” along with many apologetics pamphlets; worked with St. Jane Frances de Chantal in establishing the Sisters of the Visitation Friday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 1/24/20 Gospel: Mark 3:13-19

Optional Memorial of St. Marianne Cope, 1838-1918; Franciscan sister who went to Molokai to care for those afflicted with leprosy; honored by the Hawaiian government, celebrated in a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson Thursday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 1/23/20 Gospel: Mark 3:7-12

Day of Prayer for the Protection of Unborn Children Wednesday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 1/22/20 Gospel: Mark 3:1-6

Memorial of St. Agnes, virgin and martyr, died 258 A.D.; young woman arrested for being a Christian, condemned, and executed Tuesday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 1/21/20 Gospel: Mark 2:23-28

Monday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time Optional Memorial of St. Fabian, 200-250; pope and martyr; St. Cyprian wrote that Fabian was an “incomparable” man whose glory in death matched the holiness and purity of his life Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 1/20/20 Gospel: Mark 2:18-22

Second Sunday in Ordinary Time Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 1/19/20 Gospel: John 1:29-34