Daybreak for January 28, 2025

  • Tuesday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time
  • Memorial of St. Thomas Aquinas, 1225-1274; joined the Dominicans in 1243; studied under Albert the Great; held two professorships at Paris, lived at the court of Pope Urban IV, and directed the Dominican schools at Rome and Viterbo; his greatest contribution to the Church is his writings; the Summa Theologiae deals with the whole of Catholic theology; left unfinished, he said, “I cannot go on…. All that I have written seems to me like so much straw compared to what I have seen and what has been revealed to me.”
  • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 1/28/25
  • Gospel: Mark 3:31-35