Daybreak for July 31, 2024

  • Wednesday of the 17th Week in Ordinary Time
  • Memorial of St. Ignatius of Loyola, 1491-1556; he sought a mililtary career, but after an injury which required a long convalescence, he read a Life of Christ and lives of the saints, and began his conversion; in 1534, he and six others began the Society of Jesus, with the approval of Pope Paul III; Ignatius centered his spiritual life on the essential foundations of Christianity—the Trinity, Christ, the Eucharist
  • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 7/31/24
  • Gospel: Matthew 13:44-46