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26th Sunday in Ordinary Time Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 9/29/19 Gospel: Luke 16:19-31

Saturday of the 25th Week in Ordinary Time Optional Memorial of St. Wenceslaus, 907-929; worked for peace in Bohemia, but was murdered in 929; patron of the Bohemian people Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 9/28/19 Gospel: Luke 9:43-45

Memorial of St. Vincent de Paul, 1580-1660; led the Congregation of the Mission, also known as the Vincentians, in serving the poor; founded hospitals, collected relief funds for victims of war, ransomed 1,200 galley slaves from North Africa; patron of charitable societies Friday of the 25th Week in Ordinary Time Office of Readings and Morning […]

Optional Memorial of Saints Cosmas and Damian; Third Century Christian medical men who took no payment for their services; tortured in the persecution of Diocletian in 283; patrons of pharmacists Thursday of the 25th Week in Ordinary Time Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 9/26/19 Gospel: Luke 9:7-9

Wednesday of the 25th Week in Ordinary Time Saint of the Day: St. Albert of Jerusalem, 1149-1215; wrote a rule of life for the hermits on Mount Carmel, the beginnings of the Carmelite order; assassinated on his way to the Lateran council of 1215 Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 9/25/19 Gospel: Luke 9:1-6

Tuesday of the 25th Week in Ordinary Time Saint of the Day: St. Rupert of Salzburg, 660-710; evangelized Bavaria; established the salt-mining industry, from whence comes the town name, Salzburg Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 9/24/19 Gospel: Luke 8:19-21

Memorial of St. Pio of Pietrelcina, 1887-1968; better known as Padre Pio; received the stigmata in 1918; heard confessions for up to ten hours per day Monday of the 25th Week in Ordinary Time Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 9/23/19 Gospel: Luke 8:16-18

25th Sunday in Ordinary Time Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 9/22/19 Gospel: Luke 16:1-13

Feast of St. Matthew, apostle and evangelist; former tax collector who responded to the Lord’s call; human author of the first Gospel Saturday of the 24th Week in Ordinary Time Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 9/21/19 Gospel: Matthew 9:9-13

Memorial of Saints Andrew Kim Taegon, Pau Chong Hasang, and companions; the Korean martyrs of the 19th Century Friday of the 24th Week in Ordinary Time Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 9/20/19 Gospel: Luke 8:1-3