• Thursday of the 11th Week in Ordinary Time
• Optional Memorial of St. Romuald, 950-1027; witnessed his father kill a relative in a duel, and fled to a monastery; the monks found him “uncomfortably holy” and eased him out; tried to preach in Hungary, but was taken ill when he arrived, and the illness returned whenever he tried to proceed; at a monastery where he stayed, he was accused of a scandalous crime by a nobleman, which the monks accepted, and excommunicated Romuald, forbidding him to celebrate mass, an unjust punishment which he served for six months; Romuald’s father became a monk, and when he wavered, Romuald’s encouragement helped him
• Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 6/19/25
• Gospel: Matthew 6:7-15

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