Daybreak for November 25, 2022

  • Friday of the 34th Week in Ordinary Time
  • Optional Memorial of St. Catherine of Alexandria; at the age of 18, she debated 50 pagan philosophers, who all became Christians, along with 200 soldiers and members of the emperor’s family–all were martyred; Catherine was to be executed on a spiked wheel which she touched, and it shattered, so she was beheaded in 310 A.D.; patroness of students, teachers, librarians, and lawyers; one of the 14 Holy Helpers
  • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 11/25/22
  • Gospel: Luke 21:29-33