Daybreak for December 1, 2025

  • Monday of the First Week of Advent
  • Saint of the Day: St. Edmund Campion, 1540-1581; English convert who became a Jesuit, and preached up to three times per day, riding from town to town on horseback, winning many converts; in 1581 he was captured by Elizabethan authorities, and tortured on a rack before being sentenced to death; in December 1581, he was executed by drawing and quartering at Tyburn, London
  • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/1/25
  • Gospel: Matthew 8:5-11