- Feast of St. Lawrence, 225-258; a Roman deacon under Pope St. Sixtus II, assigned to care for the material goods of the church; when ordered by the prefect of Rome to turn over the treasures of the church, he gathered a large number of the blind, lame, maimed, leprous, orphaned, and widowed, and said, “These are the treasures of the church”; Lawrence was martyred by being roasted on a gridiron; after much suffering, he was heard to say, “It is well done. Turn me over!”
- Saturday of the 18th Week in Ordinary Time
- Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/10/24
- Gospel: John 12:24-26
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