Daybreak for July 17, 2024

  • Wednesday of the 15th Week in Ordinary Time
  • Saints of the Day: Carmelite Martyrs of Compiegne, died 1794; at the beginning of the French revolution, the Carmelite monastery in Compiegne, France, was ordered closed and the nuns disbanded; sixteen nuns were imprisoned in a Visitation convent, where they openly resumed their religious life; they were taken to Paris and sentenced to death; they went to the guillotine singing the Salve Regina
  • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 7/17/24
  • Gospel: Matthew 11:25-27