Daybreak for June 17, 2025

  • Tuesday of the 11th Week in Ordinary Time
  • Saint of the Day: St. Teresa of Portugal, 1178-1250; daughter of royal parents; married her cousin, King Alfonso IX of Leon, and bore him several children, but the marriage was declared invalid due to consanguinity; she returned to Portugal and founded a monastery, accomodating 300 nuns, and she lived there; in about 1231, at the request of Alfonso’s second wife and widow, Berengaria, she settled a dispute among theirchildrenover the succession of thethrone of Leon; she returned to Lorvao and became a nun
  • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 6/17/25
  • Gospel: Matthew 5:43-48