• Thursday of the 18th Week in Ordinary Time
• Optional Memorial of Pope St. Sixtus II and companions; elected to the papacy in 257; forbidden by the Romans to hold services, he and hisdeaconscontinued to worship in thechapel in the cemetary; one day in 258, as the pope preached, soldiers broke into the chapel and beheaded Sixtus; four of his eight attendants were also beheaded; the authorities executed another three later that day;St. Lawrencewas martyred four days later.
• Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/7/25
• Gospel: Matthew 16:13-23

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