Daybreak for January 18, 2025

  • Saturday of the First Week in Ordinary Time
  • Saint of the Day: St. Margaret of Hungary, 1242-1271; daughter of King Bela IV; became a Dominican novice at the age of 12 in a royal convent on an island in the Danube; she was a princess among nuns of nobility, but insisted upon no special treatment; she performed menial tasks, and served the poor and most advanced hospital cases; she died of fatigue on January 18, 1271
  • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 1/18/25
  • Gospel: Mark 2:13-17